NGL I don't get how that is relevant to the discussion. I am not fucking saying that the US isn't full of fucked up shit or hasn't done a lot of shit, but yeah I prefer them to Russia and China
Oh yeah if it comes to blows Taiwan is gonna burn and as you said a blockade is a more realistic situation, but I fucking hate the appeasement towards China.
Real talk, we would have to enforce much stronger integration among the EU to see us become less reliant on the US in matters of security but sadly I struggle to see that happening within my life time
So did Russia.
That matches my thought exactly. France and EU should probably focus on helping Ukraine defend itself to win against the Russian invasion. If they're able to do that without much reliance on the US, then that would be a great achievement. However, the current reality is in totality, US is the one helping Ukraine with the most resources. So I feel if France/EU wants to flex, let's start there first, right?
www.politico.eu
They already don't so it's not much of a point.It seems that Macron isn't alone in his opinion:
Charles Michel: Europe warming up to Macron’s ‘strategic autonomy’ push away from US
European Council president says EU cannot ‘blindly, systematically follow’ Washington.
It seems that Macron isn't alone in his opinion:
Charles Michel: Europe warming up to Macron’s ‘strategic autonomy’ push away from US
European Council president says EU cannot ‘blindly, systematically follow’ Washington.
I don't think his statement is all that meaningful. He presents an absolute extreme, borderline straw man and rejects it, which is different from saying "we're going to significantly distance ourselves from the US"It seems that Macron isn't alone in his opinion:
Charles Michel: Europe warming up to Macron’s ‘strategic autonomy’ push away from US
European Council president says EU cannot ‘blindly, systematically follow’ Washington.
www.theguardian.com
I also think we have to consider that when Macron says "I want the EU to become a world power that could rival the US or China" what he actually means is "I want France to be a world power that could rival the US or China". France's interest in a stronger EU is in no way independent from their idea that they would be leading (at the very least as one of one or two leaders, if not the sole leader) said strong EU. I'm not even against decreased EU reliance on US military, but when examining the motives of leaders you can't just take what they say at face value
Oh yeah Macron still dreams of France leading the EU as a global player, personally really not a fan of him
A member of the CDU doesn't have any ground, low or high, to stand on regarding China.
Lula's best international friends are Putin and Xi. I'm unimpressed.
On correlated news, Brazil is also distancing itself from the US but in this case, sponsored by China.
Today Lula met Xi, signed 15 agreements, and said that no one will prohibit Brazil from having an advanced link with China (this is related to Huawei's 5G technology - the US under the Trump administration was trying to influence the former Bolsonaro government to prevent the entry of the Chinese company)
The projection at the Ministry of Finance is that the pacts total around U$ 50 billion in investment. The list highlights memorandums of understanding between the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the Treasury, for infrastructure and public-private partnerships, and a protocol to manufacture and operate CBERS-6 satellites.
Yesterday at a meeting with the president of the National People's Congress, Zhao Leji, Lula had already said he wanted to "raise the level of strategic partnership and, together with China, balance world geopolitics."
I, personally, do not have a formed opinion about this, but the truth is Brazil needs investments to warm up the economy. In February Lula went to the United States and returned with only a letter of intent, this time he returns from China with a real expectation of 50 billion dollars in direct investments in the country
This post is hilarious on multiple fronts and I'm pleasantly surprised to see you permabanned. Adios!
Cambridge actually had such a meta study of polls around the world, to get a sense of the opinions on the US, Russia, and China: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A_World_Divided.pdf
I have no idea why my post triggered that response 😂 considering all I wrote was what was quoted in that poll. Namely that in the US for example Republicans would be more anti China than the Democrats for reasons other than CCP.
Thanks!! Will give it a read but this is more or less what I expected. The Global south have entirely different perspectives from the West. And yes India is surprising given recent border clashes but Pakistan has always been that arch enemy for most Indians and there is still a robust trade pact between India and China. The Indian market is flooded with affordable Chinese smart phones, there is BRICS and the opposition leader was even praising China in terms of their economy.Cambridge actually had such a meta study of polls around the world, to get a sense of the opinions on the US, Russia, and China: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A_World_Divided.pdf
Here are the salient graphs. Note that this study covers polls conducted after the war in Ukraine, which you can see in the graph on page 18 of the pdf (I use the pdf page, not the internal pagination).
page 20, change of opinions on China over time, divided by region
page 13, favorable opinions of the 3 countries, divided by type of country
Worldwide opinion of China is actually pretty fairly stable and positive (except the very large dip around 2019, maybe Hong Kong?). However, the overall stability is driven by a pretty significant divergence in opinion, with the Global South having improving opinions compared to a decade earlier (or even a few years earlier), while high income countries having lower opinions (China's opinion of itself is not counted in this study, nor US toward the US itself and Russia toward Russia itself). In fact, the Global South has a higher opinion of China than the US, though only barely.
There are also some salient points. For example, India now has almost a net positive opinion of China (and it's going up), despite the border clashes and Hindu nationalism. Positive opinion of China increased from 18% in 2012 to 40% in 2022 (though quite a bit to go before net positive).
www.theguardian.com
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www.reuters.com
Not sure I want to make a new thread here but it's looking like Germany might be about to embrace China as well:
China says it hopes Germany supports peaceful Taiwan 'reunification'
China's top diplomat Wang Yi "hopes and believes" Germany will support China's "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Feels like America is losing a lot of allies these days.
Lol no?Not sure I want to make a new thread here but it's looking like Germany might be about to embrace China as well:
China says it hopes Germany supports peaceful Taiwan 'reunification'
China's top diplomat Wang Yi "hopes and believes" Germany will support China's "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Feels like America is losing a lot of allies these days.
