Germany sides with US in 'great power' rivalry with China

[KAL-EL]

I knew it wasn't going to last lol. @KAL-EL

 

[Feng Leng]

I knew it wasn't going to last lol. @KAL-EL

Don't you have some body part collecting to do too?

 

[Pakistani Aircraft]

That is why the USA will remain the undisputed superpower and China cannot challenge it.

All the richest and most powerful countries like Germany and Japan will side with it. The vast bulk of the world will either actively support the USA or stay neutral.

China only has itself to blame for remaining friendless.

If you used a brain cell, you would know the US has 60,000 troops deployed in Germany as a direct result of World War 2. Same goes for Japan.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

If you used a brain cell, you would know the US has 60,000 troops deployed in Germany as a direct result of World War 2. Same goes for Japan.

about 35,000 in Germany and 50,000 Japan.

 

[master_13]

LOL, why is this even news? US defeated both Germany and Japan and have troops stationed there, you'd expect Germany would say otherwise? China rose to where it is now despite Germany and Japan have been in the US camp for a long time, so Germany simply declaring what people have known for a long time and China is somehow doomed? How do you think China get to where they are today? By having German in the China camp? LOL.

 

[OIO]

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...des-with-us-in-great-power-rivalry-with-china

MUNICH — Germany is firmly on the side of Washington in the resurgent rivalry between the United States and China, Berlin’s top defense official declared Friday, adding that Americans saw the return of "great power competition" before Europeans did.

“We are not neutral,” German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen told the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering that this year will see more than 35 heads of state and government and 80 defense and foreign ministers in attendance. “We side with freedom, we side with human dignity, we side with democracy and the rule of law.”

Western officials regard Russia and China with growing alarm, and the U.S. in particular has kept a wary eye on Chinese bids for soft power in Europe and around the world. Russia draws much of the international attention as a threat to Europe, especially since the 2014 invasion of Ukraine, but von der Leyen suggested that NATO members also need to confront China’s nonmilitary incursions into the continent.

“NATO is more than just a military alliance,” she said through a translator. “It is a political alliance. And as a political alliance, we are faced with what is a prominent feature of the new security feature, the return of great power competition. Our American friends recognized that early on and we too understand this now.”

Her comments reinforced Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s warning, carried throughout central Europe the past several days, that China seeks “to erode freedom” in the region. “Russia and China are authoritarian powers who do not share our joint aspirations of freedom,” he said while visiting Budapest. Pompeo linked that general charge to a specific worry about Europe's increasing use of technology and equipment from Chinese telecommunications giants, companies regarded by U.S. officials as avatars of Beijing’s spy services.

EU is fragment.
Russia is the most important country between China and America.