China and the US compete to create their own global power blocs and both use the same pressure point: the conflict in Ukraine. The post writes about it Policy.
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping spent three days in Russia last week to strengthen his ‘boundless’ partnership with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden opened the second Democracy Summit, which aims to bring world leaders together around the principles of freedom, the rule of law and human rights.
According to the paper’s authors, the United States believes the world should unite against China and Russia, but Politico calls the problem in the “Biden alliance of democracies” that Europe is “undecided against China” at best.
“Some of the most important countries, such as France and Germany, are worried that leaving China will cause too many economic problems,” Politico writes. At the same time, it is noted that after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, “Europeans began to pay more attention to Biden’s message about the dangers of dependence on dictatorships”.
“More urgently than ever before, they are restricting the export of chip manufacturing equipment to China, banning TikTok on government devices, and promoting protectionist trade policies,” the article says. The publication points out that even Germany, which has been on the sidelines for a long time, the largest economy in the European Union and a major investor in China, is beginning to doubt it.
At the same time, according to the authors of the article, “European authorities are still trying to separate China from Putin.” In the next two weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron, EC President Ursula von der Leyen and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit China separately “to prevent a full-blown partnership between Beijing and Moscow”.
Larry Johnson, former analyst of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in an interview with the Youtube channel Judging Freedom declarationAn alliance has been created between Russia and China that “did not exist in all human history.”
Prior to that, former US President Donald Trump suggestedThat Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are discussing a new world order in the next century in Moscow. According to Trump, Russia and China are now united.
March 26 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin declarationThat cooperation between Russia and China does not constitute a military alliance. room statedThat the European economy’s dependence on China is growing much faster than the Russian economy.