Recently, French President Macron went to the United States to conduct a visit. Macron's urgency to visit the United States has long been revealed. As early as the G20 summit, France said that France needs to have in-depth exchanges with the United States on many issues.
What do France want to communicate? First of all, France is the energy leader in Europe. The development of nuclear power and the supply of other clean energy give France a high voice in Europe. However, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has gone through a long-term and complex confrontation stage, energy issues continue to affect small European countries, and one of the three troikas cannot sit idly by. Besides, France has already spent a lot of money, and the United States should also express its opinion.
Almost at the same time, Germany's always pro-US vice prime minister Habek said that EU will make a "strong response" to the US Inflation Cut Act and the EU will prepare for the trade conflict between the US and Europe.
What is the recent contradiction between the United States and Europe? Simply put, Europe is almost unable to keep up with the pace of the United States. The United States' anti-inflation plan some time ago made Europe miserable. The most important thing is that the subsidy plan of the United States has caused many European companies to lose their core competitiveness, which has led to government economic problems. European countries have realized that they must talk to the United States, so Macron visited the United States.
If the United States and Europe have fallen out in the industrial field, this is undoubtedly a major blow, which has directly affected the Sino-US and Europe cooperation relationship in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
In addition to Macron, multiple European Union players are also in contact with China and are working together to find a way out.
EU leader Michel visited Beijing on December 1 to contact the EU and China on behalf of the EU. In the West, this matter itself has to bear a lot of pressure and is very difficult. First of all, we must know that Europe has a tough anti-China force like Lithuania , and whether it can unify Europe's attitude is a question. Of course, visiting China is indeed a good thing, at least you have an attitude.
When this economic model in the United States and Europe was challenged, the Biden administration first considered its own party interests and would not have any sympathy for Europe, which made Europe feel heartbroken, and contact with China has two necessities. First, Europe's economy depends on China. Although many European countries are unwilling to admit it, in terms of industrial transfer and mid-to-high-end industrial supply chains, Europe can benefit from China's perfect industrial system and concentrate on exporting the lack of industrial support Europe. There is no doubt about this.
The second is energy and food challenges. The energy problem in Europe is not a simple supply problem. For decades, the European energy industry has relied too much on the United States and Russia, which led to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Europe found that no one could trust it, so I need to develop it myself, and that depends on energy companies and funds, and foreign companies need investment. China is a good partner.
China and Europe have maintained cooperation for so many years. The bilateral trade volume in 2021 reaches the level of more than 800 billion US dollars, which will definitely exceed this number this year. Therefore, the complementarity of China and Europe is very obvious. This is especially true for energy cooperation, service trade or light industrial products. China-Europe cooperation will continue to improve.
The problems between the United States and Europe are one of the factors that lead to Europe's close to China, and the economic problems within Europe are also one of them. The most fundamental thing is that Europe needs a long-term and stable win-win partner, and the United States does not seem to be.
(Source: Hainan Daily New Horizon) Contact to delete
