Why the EU should never have tried to paint China as a 'strategic rival'
The label, introduced in 2019, pleases no one, having failed to curry US favour or extort Chinese concessions. Instead, the EU should focus on maintaining strategic autonomy.
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The label, introduced in 2019, pleases no one, having failed to curry US favour or extort Chinese concessions. Instead, the EU should focus on maintaining strategic autonomy.
America shamelessly uses other countries to further its own agenda, disregarding their needs. It has split the world and kept it in a state of perennial conflict since World War II and is now invoking the nightmarish return of the Cold War.
The United States and the European Union are negotiating a trade agreement—the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Coercive diplomacy comes at a cost: It threatens to inject friction and erode trust in the transatlantic relationship.
The French president arrived in Washington earlier this week, as Paris and other European capitals are worried about protectionist US policies, since EU... 01.12.2022, Sputnik International