"don’t ally with the Japanese." Turnabout is fair play. "In 2014, Emmanuel Macron, then France’s economy minister, pulled a devious stunt under the country’s

"don’t ally with the Japanese." Turnabout is fair play. "In 2014, Emmanuel Macron, then France’s economy minister, pulled a devious stunt under the country’s protectionist Florange Law which doubled the voting rights attached to the French state’s 15 per cent stake in Renault. If this had stood, it would have given the French government ultimate control over Nissan, making it hostage to French political exigencies such as unemployment or the agitations of the gilets jaunes. In the end, Macron’s power grab was limited by the Nissan board, with Ghosn’s support, but the manoeuvre shook the Japanese, and played into suspicions of yet more perfidious designs on the part of the French." Source: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n02/james-lasdun/fishing-for-potatoes https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n02/james-lasdun/fishing... Maybe "don't ally with foreign corporations" is a more accurate truism.