Just a few weeks ago china was the epicenter of the Coronavirus Crisis the place where the outbreak began because its suddenly gone from victim to savior well serbias Prime Minister seems to think so just take a listen to this interview that she gave just recently with Chinese Television when we identified the 1st identified the 1st case of corner virus in serbia the fear of the peoples republic of china was the 1st to approach offer help the support of china saves lives interview. I really am in turn the through. The procedure through to a direct more human to this steel friendship between china and serbia once all this is behind us after all the negative coverage associated with the outbreak in china that kind of praise is a stunning turn around. And and it puts beijing back on track in a much longer term project of building up its image and its influence around the world that china has been working quite hard even before the pandemic to improve its reputation globally and undercut the reputation of democracies and demonstrate that shrine is system of governance is more of a fact it now that process looks set to accelerate to intensify i do see this as the years dziedzic tipping the bend in well history. West the rise of china and how its going to impact on the world i do see this wire as as a moment when decisions need to be made and choices choices made in europe about whose side are you on were going to look at 2 Big Questions is china really coming to the rescue and what are those choices that the west is going to have to face. Back in Central Europe another of those chinese shipments is coming into land this time in hungary. Prime minister for talk or ban is here the plane is packed with medical supplies to help fight the outbreak and or inspected eagerly. Following events in budapest is d. W. Funny fracture. Without or buy can portray himself as a strong leader with the method im here for you have a protector or with a help from china 60 tons of supplies arrived last week from china and more is through arrive. Chinas interest in hungary is nothing new or bomb hosted premier league could china in budapest 2 years ago hailing major investment in the country its part of a Bigger Picture of chinese outreach in central and eastern europe. Thats proving controversial. About 12. China came up with this idea of creating something that they called back then 16 plus one which was 16th century european and Central EasternEuropean Countries from the baltics the balkans china were directly trade directly talking directly. Interact with usenet sheets and definitely theres real concern brussels that this is in fact an attempt to kind of weaken the European Union and to deal with countries individually or in smaller blocs like china for his part hungarys victor or band seems more than willing to side. Step the European Union hes just provoked outrage by adopting sweeping open ended powers to rule by decree in response to the coronavirus its something that seems more reminiscent of chinas form of governance in 2015 he declared that instead of following in the footsteps of liberal western democracies hungary should rather take a look at the liberal Success Stories like china therefore its not a secret but rather ryall politics that holder if he is china is a desirable partner as for the Chinese Government itself its reacted angrily to western critics suggesting that it supplies of medical equipment anything other than the true istic now not having to miss you want to once in all the usual month since that would your mom. Put the e. U. s top diplomat has been voicing some doubts about chinas motives which was that burrell has warned about what he referred to as a battle of narratives in an online post he wrote china is aggressively pushing the message that unlike the u. S. Its a responsible and reliable partner you must be aware that theres a geo political component including a struggle for influence through spinning and the politics of generosity armed with facts we need to defend europe against its attractors the implication was clear dont take chinese help necessarily at face value and watch out for attempts to undermine facts. While chinas state media promote a chinese way in dealing with the virus investigative journalists or the nonprofit outlet pro publica reported finding thousands of fake social media accounts pushing pro china narratives and senior figures in beijing have been spreading explosive claims like suggesting the us army brought the virus to china. Weve had a Foreign Ministry spokesman called Charlie Tsien who has put out conspiracy theories that the virus was what did i know by u. S. Soldiers at the military gains in in china there in the autumn and then he started to see that pats it was you know caused by talian weve always seen just information from china but we very rarely seen senior chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman. Basically fabricating lives despite that many european leaders are going out of their way to thank china for its support in fighting the outbreak right up to the president of the European Commission herself we are grateful for support from china the Prime Minister announced that china is ready to provide 2000095 masks 2000000 surgical masks and 50000 testing kits these can be shipped to europe immediately this support is highly valued and we are grateful for it those warm words are even more remarkable when you think about the context theres been a lot of tension recently within europe about individual countries not doing enough to help each other out the Commission President also spoke about that recently and this time her language was not warm at all. When europe really needed to be there for each other to have many initially looked out for themselves when europe really needed an all or for one spirit too many initially gave and only for me response. Since then there have been more examples of e. U. Countries helping each other out for instance with German Air Force planes being kitted out and left italian patients. But theres major uncertainty about how far e. U. Member countries are prepared to pull together to meet the enormous costs of the crisis just one of many challenges to european unity. It needs to be much more. United and caring among and between the states and it needs to really really call out stops to help other countries its starting to do that a bit better very slow start things have picked up absolutely. Needs to go more one more in that direction nice to take responsibility for its own medical situation needs to create much better systems throughout europe it seems clear that the less europe pulls together the more theres an opening for china to come and fill a gap thats also been left in part by america. Under President Trump the u. S. Is becoming less interested in old alliances and more inclined to go to america 1st its come at a cost to relations with europe. Obviously we have a lot of issues that are character contentious between the u. S. And our european allies. Certainly that creates an opening for china i think many chinese see the trumpet ministration as the gift that keeps on giving it has really created the the potential in the opportunity for china to step up so what happens next a lot depends on whether donald trump wins reelection in november a defeat by joe biden would likely mean a return to stronger ties with traditional allies. Speak and all of you for growth the power suit towards alliances i think would be more cooperative we would be looking to work with our allies to push back against china in some areas meanwhile more and more voices from both left and right in America Calling for the us to decouple its economy from china to reduce the enormous amount of ties that have built up over the last couple of decades. Thats already happening to an extent with american moves to cut the chinese telecoms giant while away out of its future mobile Data Networks but it could now go further. The United States now it was recognized that weve become too dependent on. For example the maker of medicines so you will see this sort of decoupling limited sectors but not a simple relation the u. S. And china use the car back here in europe trying to analysts d. D. Kirsten tatler sees more profound choices ahead and do you see this as the years dziedzic tipping the. World history wish the rise of china and how its going to impact on the world i do see this virus as a moment when decisions need to be made and choices choices. About whose side are you on we should be asking ourselves hard questions about globalization about how safe and. How safe is globalization under conditions of. Divergent political systems perhaps globalization is not the only works when theres political agreements when theres agreement about. How society should be. For now of course mostly to surround the world theyre too busy Fire Fighting the virus to take time for such big. Fundamental decisions but when the outbreak is behind us theyll have some serious thinking to do. Aha im going crazy thing in all the time. How to handle our new allies in times of the koran up and then make g. W. Reporter kyoto is just like everyone else and shes looking for answers thankfully with the help of training expect a few other. 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