I would add that there is actually no debate at all as to whether the EU is subjugated to NATO control and command. This was actually formalized in January 9th, 2023:
"Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation by the President of the European
Council, the President of the European Commission, and the Secretary General
There, that day, with no EU-wide process of public deliberation or assessment, and the unelected head of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who I would argue is a CIA asset, basically signed over the foreign policy of the entire EU to the USA's global war machine NATO led by Jens Stoltenberg, who the journalist Sy Hersh has said is a CIA asset.
That declaration basically states that the relationships of the EU will be steered by the Pentagon's singlulary war machine ( https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ ), one run on goals of perpetually manufactured conflict and mass murder for profit by default......NOT on diplomacy or cooperation or human development.
Already under Biden you see for example in June 2024 the EU starting in needless tarriff war with China, in the process making electric cars more expensive for every citizen of an EU country:
So everything you pointed to in this article is only set to get worse, not only with respect to EU-China relation, but actually EU relationship vis a vis the entire world.
And with it the lives of EU citizens will go down the drain, because the NATO war machine eats up growing amounts of money, leaving nothing for human beings at home. The misery experienced by US citizens is the life that awaits all Europeans. Unless they wake up immediately and start reversing these bad decisions and making what is left of democracy in Europe, work FOR them not against them.
I have not seriously considered the matter yet, I wonder if NATO’s Indo-Pacific strategy can be characterized as “Keep the Americans in, the Chinese down, and the Russians out”, or perhaps for both China and Russia to be down and out in their best scenario. Chinese formulation for the basic empire-building is "diplomacy with the faraway, and military actions against the neighbors". From Europe's point of view, as a waning empire, intuitively a diplomatic approach with China is the right one, although setting up a car factory in China is not necessarily a good move. If Europeans really want to fight, then Ukraine is their war. It is a bit different for the USA. USA is as much a Pacific nation as an Atlantic nation. China and Russia are literally neighbors and a fight cannot be precluded. In contrast, the USA has no business in Ukraine, Georgia, or Azerbaijan. They are Russia's neighbors, but very far from the USA. Even at its imperialist peak, USA had over-stretched itself. Now it's the ebb tide for the USA. As for Europe, I don't see it having an independent future until Europe reaches a security agreement with Russia.
Good article.
I would add that there is actually no debate at all as to whether the EU is subjugated to NATO control and command. This was actually formalized in January 9th, 2023:
"Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation by the President of the European
Council, the President of the European Commission, and the Secretary General
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization"
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_210549.htm
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attachment/874309/EU-NATO%20declaration_EN.pdf
There, that day, with no EU-wide process of public deliberation or assessment, and the unelected head of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who I would argue is a CIA asset, basically signed over the foreign policy of the entire EU to the USA's global war machine NATO led by Jens Stoltenberg, who the journalist Sy Hersh has said is a CIA asset.
That declaration basically states that the relationships of the EU will be steered by the Pentagon's singlulary war machine ( https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ ), one run on goals of perpetually manufactured conflict and mass murder for profit by default......NOT on diplomacy or cooperation or human development.
Already under Biden you see for example in June 2024 the EU starting in needless tarriff war with China, in the process making electric cars more expensive for every citizen of an EU country:
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/view-eu-impose-duties-up-38-chinese-electric-vehicles-2024-06-12/
So everything you pointed to in this article is only set to get worse, not only with respect to EU-China relation, but actually EU relationship vis a vis the entire world.
And with it the lives of EU citizens will go down the drain, because the NATO war machine eats up growing amounts of money, leaving nothing for human beings at home. The misery experienced by US citizens is the life that awaits all Europeans. Unless they wake up immediately and start reversing these bad decisions and making what is left of democracy in Europe, work FOR them not against them.
"Keep the Americans on top, the Russians defending, and the Chinese villified."
Is it a bad thing that China doesn't share the USA's imperial values.
I have not seriously considered the matter yet, I wonder if NATO’s Indo-Pacific strategy can be characterized as “Keep the Americans in, the Chinese down, and the Russians out”, or perhaps for both China and Russia to be down and out in their best scenario. Chinese formulation for the basic empire-building is "diplomacy with the faraway, and military actions against the neighbors". From Europe's point of view, as a waning empire, intuitively a diplomatic approach with China is the right one, although setting up a car factory in China is not necessarily a good move. If Europeans really want to fight, then Ukraine is their war. It is a bit different for the USA. USA is as much a Pacific nation as an Atlantic nation. China and Russia are literally neighbors and a fight cannot be precluded. In contrast, the USA has no business in Ukraine, Georgia, or Azerbaijan. They are Russia's neighbors, but very far from the USA. Even at its imperialist peak, USA had over-stretched itself. Now it's the ebb tide for the USA. As for Europe, I don't see it having an independent future until Europe reaches a security agreement with Russia.
Distance from Washington DC to Moscow is 7,816 km.
Distance from Washington DC to Beijing 11,139 km.
I preferred it when the saying "there are oceans between us" meant something.