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Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron
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none of them are allies, Russia is an enemy,
USA may well be and detanglement should be a priority but certainly the US is no longer an ally or friend. China is in the neither enemy or friend basket, much like Vietnam, Brazil etc.
Is there really not a better source for this? Politico is part of Axel Springer press, which is inherently right wing and constantly spreading lies.
Maybe? I read the article, checked if a similar article had been posted already, it hadn't so...
Start posting interesting articles from sources you think are good and perhaps the amount of politico articles goes down?
I don't get why politico is singled out though. Plenty of cunts own newspapers.
If you make posts with links to newspapers owned by Rupert Murdock you will get similar pushback, and that is a good comparism, just that how bad Axel Springer is, is lesser known outside German speaking countries.
Wouldn't say China is 'dead against' the EU. China just does stuff which benefits them the most, I wouldn't say they have an inherent resentment towards the EU. And unlike the US, I believe China sees that the EU is a viable partner economically and that they would do themselves a disfavour if they were damaging those relations. Something the US doesn't understand, they just continue to isolate themselves further and further and suffer the consequences.
The EU's concern is that if China becomes too dominant, their authoritarian politics could permeate across.
However, you are right about from China's pov. They want to trade and be left alone (although, that doesn't mean that China may one day not try to exert wider influence). They are trying to revive the concept of China being the centre of the world. For the Chinese, they call their country "Zhongguo" meaning "Middle Kingdom". And before the European/Western dominance, countries were dying to form diplomatic and trade relations with China, which China kinda takes advantage of by demanding tributes from states who want to open relations. China knows they are the deal.
Well, USA is quite dominant and their imperial politics have been permeating across the world for quite some time.
Europe should probably focus inwards and try to gain more independence from outside actors. EU can do it, mostly, it just doesn't want to because milions of voters cannot outvote a lobbying company.
With the current nation state model, people tend to side with the "lesser evil". Before the second coming of Trump, people surveyed around the world expressed more favourable view of USA than China, although they trust neither.
Yeah. Democracy kinda forces lesser evil, no? Like you can't find politician that has platform of any value to you, but everyone tells you to vote regardless, so you end up voting for whoever looks like a lesser evil.
I'd say form of governance beyond every person being isolated and only ruling themselves forces lesser evil, it's very unlikely that any two people would always be in perfect alignment on every single conceivable issue. Of course in some systems you don't get a say you so you don't get to pick the option that you're the most aligned with at all.
If you can't find a politician close enough to your values, become one (or support someone you trust in doing so)
I'd also add: china wants european customers, and brands, a lot more than they want anything from the US.
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China is not against the EU. They have never done anything against us
China is not against the EU.
True, China is "for China", mainly looking to profit.
They have never done anything against us.
That however is an stretch where does "against" start?
Like fueling, ICC's wanted criminal war, Putin's economy as he wages war on eastern Europe?
China does business with everyone and their position in the war is actually neutral. Xi Jinping is actually kinda pissed off by Putin since China had massive investments in Ukraine that have been destroyed, halted or ruined because of the war. China and Russia, in contrast of what is said in our media, are NOT allies. Or at least they are not allies as we mean it
PRC does business with everyone, criminals like Putin included, as EU does business with criminals like Netanyahu. Difference between neither Putin or Netanyahu can set foot in Europe, since they are wanted criminals by International Criminal Court.
Or at least they are not allies as we mean it
Of course not, Putin does the war crimes, PRC does the business with said criminal. It's just business, you see.
...in league with war crimes but still, just, business.
China does business with everyone and their position in the war is actually neutral.
So neutral that they still don't even call it war. So neutral. Wow.
China ~~does~~ wants to continue to do business with everyone and hence wants to sell the image of their position in the war ~~is~~ as being actually neutral while being knees deep in supporting Russia's war machine.
^Fixed it for you
Fuck Politico, Axel Springer and Döpfner. Don't share, don't click.
Oh great, Euro-nationalism. No, sorry, we are well on track to being the continued lapdog of the US and this sorry excuse of a chauvinism won't change anything.
As not being lap dog of someone like?
USA: lapdog for billionaire
Russia/China being lapdog for each other as one wage war and the other profit from it?
There's no need for nationalism: Europe can do well with other decent countries, which are not Russia, USA, China and closeted allies (such Israel/India). Australia, Canada, Japan... basically any country of this planet which is not a dictatorship and,at very last, adhere to the International Criminal Court.
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