BS. When you are a vassal, as the US will soon be, alliances are meaningless.
But hey, it’s not all bad. The Chinese are bright enough to make sure we have internet and smartphones. Of course, internet content will be changed a little.
When has a united Europe ever been a friend? Particularly one based on the so-called “social market economy” and expounds “respect for the principles of the (communistic) United Nations charter”?
Kaiser Wilhelm II described the notion of having “a United States of Europe against America” at the beginning of the last century.
Slight variation on the Hitler-Tojo axis. This time, the Germans won’t need to bomb Pearl Harbir.
Note to The Federalist: I hate to break it to you, but that ship sailed a while ago.
[There was a logic in the British “divide and rule” policy. Compared to a lot of Eastern European countries, Britain was in a better position to unilaterally move out, given British economy and military power, something a lot of smaller countries are not capable of. American strategists worth their salt would start thinking about how to exploit these rifts within the EU. ]
Tell it to the Italians. I think they had enough of the Chinese.
If the Euros want to align with China, they better use a very long spoon.
Probably East Asia will divide. The countries close to China go with us, the ones further out with China?
European socialists and statists are embracing Europe’s decline and second-class status.
No it would not! The US needs more isolation, to get back to its roots of self sufficiency!
The Eurowimps need Chinese labor in China to produce cheaply the consumer goods, electronics and heavy materiels that are too costly and enviormentally detrimental to produce in Europe. China in turn needs the markets, the flow of capital and access to innovative technology and advances. Both benefit. Yet neither are a real threat to the United States. The United States will never fight a land war with China on the Asian mainland. China for all its penetrations into the American economy and political infrastructure cannot really really control America.
Yet China model of economic development is fatally flawed. The Communist Party controls the central bank and the allocation of capital. As a result huge amounts of laboursly earned capital have been and continue to be squandered. There is chronic economic and political instability in China. When it acutely worsens the CCP will do all it can to preserve its grip on power. China has always coveted Russia’s rich but underpopulated Siberian and Pacific coast territories. During a crisis the prize would be very tempting to desperate communists.
Therefore very much doubt there will be a conflict involving the Eurowimps or the Americans. However a serious fight between Russia alligned perhaps with India, financed by Japan against China one day will happen.
That Stasi has been PM of Deutschland for a long time. Is she really that popular? Or do they use Dominion machines there, too?
Good. We can get out of NATO and take down all our military bases over there
Is it a disaster for the US or Biden? It would be a shame if the big guy didn’t get his 10%.
Sorry, we have our own homemade one in the offing thanks to an assist from chy-nuh possibly starting 1/20/2021. Or will it be 2020 2.0?
Attention European Union...I’ve vacationed in Europe more than a few times in my life and I’m currently driving my fourth German made car. But rest assured that I’ll never return an EU country and if I buy any more European cars they’ll be British,not German,Italian,Swedish,etc.
EU will not “align” with China.
Most certainly not militarily.
In the global basis puzzle of civilization none of the pieces would fit. None of them.
They would have a far greater chance of aligning with Russia.
Cultural compatibility, adjacency, energy and vast tracks of unused land and resources being the driving forces.
China has none of those.
NOT for a United States united under the leadership of President Donald Trump!