Zeng Fusheng: The United States and China Games EU does not choose edges

Author: Zeng Fusheng

US Secretary of Defense Aisp (Esper) recently emphasized at the Royal Institute of the London Think Tank Royal Institute that the European Union should pay attention to China's expansion of influence in Europe and attach importance to China's sovereignty and security threat to European countries.

U.S. Secretary of U.S. Pompeo recently talks with the European Union as a leader to discuss how the United States and the European Union cooperate to resist Huawei 5G equipment, and jointly criticize China in violation of human rights behavior and Hong Kong issues in Xinjiang, and strive to maintain a unanimous position in the European Union and the United States.Subsequently, the Minister of Defense Aisba emphasized to the Secretary -General of NATO and the British and French Defense Director that China is already the number one strategic competitor in the United States. It is currently actively enhanced the modernization of military power and aims to challenge the United States and realize its geopolitical vision.Therefore, the United States will expand military energy and energy in Europe and Indo -Pacific regions, and cooperate closely with the allies, in order to effectively curb the expansion of China in Europe, India, and South (China).

However, EU countries have emphasized the US priority policy on the President of Trump (Trump), repeatedly criticized the value of the European Union and NATO on the United States, and also strongly required NATO allies to increase military expenses to reach 2%GDP, which is generally angry and dissatisfied.

Trump calls the EU the enemy

At the same time, President Trump also regards the European Union as a competitor for economic and trade, even called an enemy, and asked the EU to reduce the trade surplus of nearly 170 billion US dollars (S $ 233.6 billion) to the United States as soon as possible, which led to the dilemma of the double leadership of most countries and foreign affairs.It is also moved by EU countries' trust in the United States.In addition, President Trump ignored the opposition of Germany and France, and tore up the Iranian nuclear agreement, allowing Germany and France to sanctions on Iran's economic, trade and energy forbiddenness, causing major losses of economic and trade interests.

In addition, President Trump refused to join the Paris Climate Agreement, abolished the China -Guidance Treaty, and also supported the Brexit Policy of the British Conservative Government, and supported Russia to return to the G8 summit to lay out the United Russia system.The decision -making style will generate a two -hand strategy that may be sold out by Trump at any time and develops meticulous and unsteady, hoping to meet the source around the United States and China.Some EU countries have even begun to promote strategic independent policies, emphasizing that Europe should expand cooperative relations with China, Japan, Canada, and Latin America, and change the EU's long -term control of the United States.

Overall, the EU and the United States have a value of US $ 5 trillion each year, and create 9 million job opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.At the same time, the European Union is also China's largest trade and investment partner, as well as the main source of high -tech.On September 6, German Chancellor Merkel (Merkel) visited Beijing and had ... talks with ... and the two parties emphasized that they need to strengthen economic and trade science and technology cooperation, oppose unilateral protectionism, and show that Western Europe and other countries hope to deepen the development of Chinese economic and trade science and technology cooperationEssenceAs for the Central and Eastern European and southern European countries, it is welcome to invest in infrastructure in investment to promote economic recovery, increase China's development space and influence in Europe, and become a new option for EU development partners.

It's hard to do in the United European Union

RecentHowever, the United States and the European Union negotiated with the new trade agreement, the NATO alliance toll sharing, withdrawn Afghanistan and signed a peace agreement plan, Chinese policy, Russian policy, tearing the Iranian nuclear agreement, rejection of the Paris climate agreement, and abolition of the Treaty of China Guide TreatyIn issues such as the US -European security cooperation plan, the United States and the European Union both have their own considerations of consideration.What's more, the strategic selfishness of President Trump ’s U.S. priority policy and the repeated decision -making style have greatly reduced the sense of trust in the United States. Therefore, the United States intentionally develops the calculation of the European Union system, which is difficult to go smoothly.