. ♪ we will begin today's program with the french ambassador to the united states, philippe etienne.> the united states has no closer all lie than australia. >> ambassador etienne was recalled back to paris. ly ask him when he can get back to washington and whether the riff between the two old allies has mended. >>> also, what did the fall of kabul look like in the other democracy with u.s.-occupied prowl. >> i will say the u.s. stands in the corruption possibility. >>> the king of sweden declared his nation's relaxed handling of the covid crisis a failure. does the country's prime minister agree? i'll ask him. >>> first, here's "my take." on september 15th, the u.s. and britain announced they were signing an agreement with australia to share technology for nuclear-powered submarines as part of a new enhanced security partnership to be known as aukus. a day after that announcement, however, came another that received relatively little coverage. china formally applied to join the comprehensive progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership, the successor of the tpp, trade fact ne

with me now is france's ambassador to the u.s., philippe etienne. mr. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. the united states, the biden administration, is saying that this is all about the endo pacific, it is not directed at france. so why is your government angry? >> well, this is the point: we are also very much involved in the indo pacific. france, of course, is a european country, but we have territories, we have populations, we have armed forces, both in the indo ocean and the pacific ocean. and we have presented or introduced already three years ago our own strategy with a security and military component, but also with other elements. and we just updated this strategy. another european union as such is presenting its own strategy. so we are very active. we also have the goal of a rule-based alter and free circulation and democratic values in this region. and so we are, um, obviously disappointed by what happened and how it happened. >> woodruff: i mentioned the deal that france has had with australia about selling them french-built submar

. ♪ we will begin today's program with the french ambassador to the united states, philippe etienne. furious over a u.s./u.k. security pact.

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