The United States has always imposed a lot of sanctions on other countries, so in fact everyone is not surprised by such things. However, in the US sanctions actions in the past two years, some things are very exciting, especially when it imposed sanctions on Russia this year, the United States has a strong backing behind it-that is, EU . They fell into a very big trap in this time's sanctions against Russia.
Especially in terms of energy use, due to the sanctions against Russia, many countries in the EU are unable to meet the energy use of each household during this year's very cold weather. In some places, due to the scarcity of energy, energy usage costs continue to increase, resulting in many people being unable to pay for heating, which has greatly affected people's basic lives.
However, after such a big struggle, the EU has not truly awakened. Instead, it is still implementing its transactions with other countries from a more political perspective.
Recently, the European Union announced that it will invest nearly 10 billion euros in Southeast Asia, and Brussels and ASEAN also held their first summit. In fact, the original purpose of such investment and summit should be for the country’s economic development. development, but in the process of this summit, everyone paid more attention to the anti-Russian issue, because the EU very clearly proposed a sanctions policy against Russia. Their behavior has actually caused fundamental changes in matters originally related to national economic development. One of them is the EU and the other is ASEAN, but the difference is very big.
The EU has always imposed sanctions on Russia and my country, and ASEAN is our key cooperation area. This time the former uses investment to win over the latter.
However, although in this summit, the most important issue was the issue of sanctions against Russia. The two sides had differences due to different opinions. However, in fact, this also involved the issue of sanctions against our country. After all, the cooperation between ASEAN and our country is very close, so such matters are worthy of our further attention.
From the sanctions against Russia, we have clearly seen the EU's shortcomings in supply, so this is more or less a warning to them.
The EU is indeed making certain improvements in this regard and is strengthening the diversification of their supply. However, they have emphasized one point, which is "the need to reduce dependence on China's supply chain." Summarizing this point is nothing more than attributing part of the reasons for the crisis they encountered to our country. On the other hand, they want to further cooperate with Southeast Asian countries, which is actually part of their plan.
However, in this situation, without considering the development of global economy , nor having a correct political stance, but blindly wanting to maintain relations with other countries based on interests, the EU's choice to spend money is doomed to be in vain.
According to relevant reports, it can be learned that during the summit. There was strong opposition from ASEAN countries, so there was a lot of controversy at the meeting. Among them, countries like Vietnam and Laos were strongly opposed to imposing sanctions on Russia.
In this regard, the President of the Philippines also stated that ASEAN refuses to return to the Cold War situation. After all, there is a lot of cooperation between countries in the ASEAN region and Russia.
Not long ago, India and the Philippines expressed the idea of importing oil and related products from Russia, because cooperation with Russia is very beneficial to them, and it can not only greatly protect their own resources, but also promote economic development for Russia, which is a very beneficial cooperation for both parties.
Moreover, ASEAN countries do not have a very serious political conflict with Russia like the EU, so they do not have the need to impose sanctions on Russia.
On the contrary, such a decision will also affect the future development of their country. Therefore, the EU wants to use interests to win over ASEAN. This is obviously not feasible. The same is true for the anti-China matter.
Therefore, the EU's large investment in Southeast Asia is ostensibly to promote the economic development of the region, but in fact it is more for their own political rights.
Their approach has ushered in the strong voice of ASEAN. ASEAN will not be anti-Russian because of such things, let alone anti-China. Therefore, on this matter, some of the EU's small thoughts will eventually be in vain. Only by truly working hard for the development of the national economy and even the global economy will more people agree.
