Paris described the Anglo-Saxon AUKUS security pact as a "backlash". The security pact is shifting the US geopolitical focus on East Asia, with China as its main rival.
France seemed to be taken by surprise, for something that was actually expected.
But let's remember the "five eyes", a very old information exchange agreement and cooperationwith America's traditional allies in Asia.
Five Eyes
The term Five Eyes is a pseudonym for the United Kingdom-United States Agreement (UKUSA by the United Kingdom-United States of America Agreement).
Despite the official name, η συμφωνία UKUSA αποτελείται από πέντε διαφορετικές χώρες: το United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The agreement has its roots in a World War II intelligence-sharing agreement between Britain and America.
Five Eyes is known for many notable scandals privacyin recent years, such as PRISM, xkeyscore and Tempora.
The History
A US classified "Information Need" spy order imposed long-term financial espionage on France in order to obtain information about the financial activities of French companies and the economic policies and decisions of the French government.
Information Needs (IN from Information Need) are data collection requirements exported by SIGINT and used to justify monitoring by US policy makers and the US Information Community.
The IN presented below was first created in 2002 and has since been updated for more than a decade. It is listed on the NSA's list of top French targets and was published by WikiLeaks.
The order
Indicates what specific information ("Essential Elements of Information" (EEE)) information services are interested in, ie what they are mandated to collect. These include France's economic relations with the United States, other countries and international institutions, France's financial and trade policies, and its views on the G-8 and G-20 agendas.
This US Essential Elements of Information mandate for France spies on US spies to gather information on all French sales and financing of major telecommunications, power, gas, oil, nuclear and other projects. renewable energy and environmental and healthcare technologies. In essence, it also requires monitoring and reporting on all negotiations and contracts of French companies worth more than $ 200 million.
This guy in France, apart from being an gerontophile, is also unhistorical as, if he knew (even) modern history he would remember that the US emptied the Kurds, the Iraqis, recently the Afghans etc.
So emptying their "allies" in Europe was a matter of time (and economic) interests (and perhaps industrial and state espionage on the part of the United States).