Although the United States flatly denies that its actions are against China and Russia, the outside world generally believes that many of the current practices of the United States are not essentially different from the Cold War during the period when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony.
By doing this, the United States is undoubtedly trying to maintain its crumbling world hegemony. However, this behavior of asking other countries to follow suit and "choose sides" is obviously contrary to the trend of diversified and integrated development of the world economy.
Even Western countries also have their own strategic considerations. Therefore, after Serbia rejected the EU threat and emphasized that China and Russia are important to it, the Netherlands, Germany and other EU countries also jumped out to speak out and opposed and the EU. China "cutting".
In the near future, Western countries will hold three summits within a week, namely the EU, G7 and NATO meetings. This seems to be an intensive action, but in fact it is a severe challenge to Western countries led by the United States.
They will face a huge test in terms of "unity". Not surprisingly, China and Russia have become an important issue for them, which has further intensified the conflicts in Western countries.
But in the East, the BRIC summit did not list Russia as a target of condemnation due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Some countries, including Argentina , even showed strong interest in joining the BRIC.
The contrast between the Eastern and Western worlds was played out in Eurasia at almost the same time. Such a stark and strange contrast shows people that although the West wants to show so-called "unity" through three summits a week, it can't hide the fact that differences are like gaps.
Just as Argentinian President said when talking about the Russia-Ukraine conflict, wheat and food should not become weapons of war. The world needs peace. Sanctions on Russia will include South America, the Caribbean , and Africa. The whole world is suffering.
Compared with other regions, European countries should be more sympathetic to the words of the Argentine president. Everyone can see that the United States deliberately provoked the Russia-Ukraine conflict in order to bring down Russia through Ukraine .
However, this move by the United States has exposed Europe to huge risks of war and has already suffered huge costs. Due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, many European countries are facing a severe energy crisis due to the countermeasures taken by Russia.
Some NATO and EU countries have continuously provided various weapons to Ukraine. Lithuania is even more afraid of instability in the world. It uses the Russian "enclave" Kaliningrad as a bargaining chip to provoke Russia wildly. This conflict can happen at any time. It is possible to further upgrade and expand.
Seeing that some EU countries are actually "directly fighting" Russia, Serbian President Vucic seemed very indignant when talking about the threat from the EU.
At the recent EU summit, 16 of the 27 EU member states openly or secretly expressed their request for Serbia to join the sanctions against Russia.
But Serbia obviously has its own views on this matter, even if it is a completely opposite position to other EU countries. Vucic believes that this matter should not go from one extreme to the other.
However, in order to meet its own requirements, the EU will not pay attention to Serbia's judgment on this matter. It just blindly applies pressure and requires Serbia to impose sanctions on China and Russia.
So Vucic pointed out in an interview that the EU simply does not understand how important China and Russia are to Serbia.
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 brought huge disasters to the Serbians. At that time, it was China and Russia who helped Serbia rebuild its homeland.
As a country in the Western Balkans, Serbia has long regarded the EU as its most important partner and became an EU candidate country many years ago. But to this day, Serbia still has not become a member of the European Union.
Vucic believes that the reason for this has a lot to do with geopolitics.
In addition to Serbia, Dutch Prime Minister Rutte also spoke fair for China when he discussed China-related issues at the summit. Rutte believes that we cannot cut ties with China just because of our stance on issues related to Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
He said it was completely wrong to reconsider trade with China, so he opposed it.
In addition, Rutte also suggested that the EU focus more on solving these problems, rather than deliberately adopting an isolated approach because those countries do not meet EU standards.
The Dutch Prime Minister’s statement after the summit attracted the attention of media from various countries. Bloomberg said that this will help Europe reassess its relationship with China.
Rutte expressed Europe's voice to the outside world, that is, we cannot go against China just because of its close relationship with the United States. Europe must have its own stance on China policy.
The reason why Rutte has such an attitude is directly related to the economic and trade relations between China and the Netherlands. At present, China has become the third largest trading partner of the Netherlands.
If the Netherlands follows the EU and China in trade disputes because of intensified competition between China and the United States, the consequences and costs will be unbearable for the Netherlands.
In addition, Germany also has different views on its China policy than the United States and other Western countries.
German media published an article that it is unimaginable that the three summits in Europe were all quarreling over how to get along with China. If this continues, two different groups in the East and the West will inevitably be formed.
Therefore, the German media believes that now we should not continue to adopt a confrontational policy towards China like the United States and Britain, but should take the initiative to get closer to China and have good relations with China.
Facts have proved that there are still sensible people in the West, but it is hard to say whether these sensible people can reverse the current tense situation.
