NATO summit, Chinese aviation companies placed a large order of 240 billion yuan with the French Airbus Group. Then the Americans and Boeing were so angry that they complained everywhere that they were "disappointed", saying that it was "disappointment". Affected by the deterioration of Sino-US relations.
Compared with the United States, which forms cliques everywhere and seeks to confront China and Russia, China's move is to use its real interests to tell the United States that no matter how much it talks, it is useless. The cooperation between China and Europe is based on the huge based on common interests. Unless the United States can replace the Chinese market and allow and the EU to see tangible benefits, no matter how much "ism" you talk about, it will not be able to match the power of "bread".
Obviously, it is impossible for the United States to replace the Chinese market. On the contrary, in the field of high-end manufacturing, the United States and the European Union are still in a competitive relationship.
The earlier NATO summit had just concluded. In a joint statement, NATO countries regarded Russia as "the main and most direct threat" and China as a "systemic threat."
It seems that NATO is about to officially engage in a "new cold war" with China and Russia. As a result, at the subsequent press conference, French President Macron directly said that "NATO is not an organization targeting China."
As a bellwether in EU politics, France's move basically represents the EU's attitude towards the "NATO globalization" promoted by the United States.
At the same time, this statement also clearly showed the differences and compromises between the EU and the United States to the world. Due to the Russia-Ukraine war, the EU now needs the help of the United States to fight against Russia.
However, this demand is not Europe's unilateral need for the United States. The United States itself also needs to "help" the EU to maintain its influence among EU countries and thereby maintain its global hegemony.
On the other hand, the United States is using its influence within NATO to try to bypass major EU countries such as France and Germany and forcefully integrate China into NATO's strategic goals.
France, Germany and other Western European major countries did not want to have conflicts with the United States over China, so they acquiesced in this approach of the United States, allowing the United States to promote its own wishes as the wishes of the EU as a whole.
However, countries such as France and Germany do not want to antagonize China because of this, so immediately after the NATO summit, Macron said that "NATO is not an organization targeting China." This actually means that all NATO actions against China are caused by the United States. As promoted by its younger brothers, the major EU countries do not recognize this.
Although this approach is a bit suspicious of "both right and wrong", the interests of all parties in international relations are complicated and this situation often occurs.
Recently, for example, the United Nations held a meeting to discuss whether to kick Russia out of the United Nations Human Rights Council . As a result, Serbia , which has always supported Russia, voted in favor.
Then Serbian President Vucic said in a direct interview with the media that Serbia was originally going to vote against it because the EU threatened to cut off Serbia’s energy import and export channels, so it had no choice but to support it.
Macron’s actions after the NATO summit are actually similar to Serbian President Vucic’s actions, except that Serbia is a small country, so it can more clearly show that he was forced.
But France is a big country, and it is impossible to say that it has no say in the NATO organization , so it can only watch the United States turn its own ideas into NATO's ideas, and finally had to use indirect methods to show that France and the EU are not the same. We don’t want to use NATO’s original intention to target China. The reason why
is like this is of course not because the relationship between France and China is better than the relationship between France and the United States, but because the trade between China and Europe now contributes more to the European economy than the trade between Europe and the United States. contribution to Europe.
This time China and Europe signed a one-time contract for nearly 300 aircraft worth 240 billion yuan, which is a typical example.The core of the EU's economic development lies in France and Germany, and the core competitiveness of France and Germany's economic development lies in high-end manufacturing represented by luxury cars and large aircraft.
At present, there is only one country in the world that can absorb the EU's high-end manufacturing capacity, and that is China.
The United States itself is also a provider of high-end manufacturing products. It competes with the EU, so it is naturally impossible to take orders from the EU. Other major economies are either not developed enough, or their markets are too small to compete with China.
The European Union is a huge economy with an economic aggregate comparable to that of China. For such an economy, it is impossible to promote its development in a small way. As the Economic Secretary of the President of South Korea previously said, South Korea must strengthen follow-up. EU commercial ties to replace China-South Korea trade.
As a result, the European media don't care much at all, not because they don't like money, but because of the size of South Korea's economy. Even if all the market is given to the EU, it will not be enough to drive the EU's economic development.
In a word, the interests of countries come first. Now that the Russia-Ukraine war is superimposed on the new crown epidemic, the global economic situation has deteriorated, and the United States' GDP has begun to decline instead of increasing. Europe naturally does not want to face such a predicament.
In this context, China, the engine of the world economy, is Europe's only hope. As long as the EU is not stupid, it will not completely turn against China for the sake of the United States in this context.
