67-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised the concept of the "Quad security partnership" between Japan, the US, Australia and India.
It is demonstrative of the fragility of certain people, their inability to digest the fact that echelons of power are no longer occupied solely by people who look like them.
The crash killed 42-year-old mother Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc Chevalier, who were travelling in a passenger vehicle struck in the collision.