[Turning Point in China - US Trade War] CHINA & EU SIGN LANDMARK DEAL !! A DECISIVE VICTORY FOR CHINA

[Daniel808]

Transatlantic ties are held back by Washington, not Beijing
By Lu Yuanzhi Published: Jan 03, 2021 08:33 PM

China-EU-US Illustration: Liu Rui/GT


China and the EU on Wednesday announced that the two sides have completed negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty as scheduled. The US has responded with a display of sour grapes.

On Friday, the Washington Post published an editorial titled "China drives a wedge between Europe and the US." On the same day, an article by the Voice of America claimed that the EU-China investment deal threatens US-Europe relations, echoing the Post's tone.

The VOA piece said that independent analysts believe "Beijing has succeeded through the deal in driving a wedge between the US and Europe, just at a time when Biden is proclaiming his desire to rebuild America's traditional alliances on the continent."

The reason why Washington holds such a mentality is because it perceives global affairs as a zero-sum game, Cui Hongjian, director of the Department of European Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times on Sunday. Influenced by this mind-set, the US blindly claims that the completion of the negotiations will further destabilize US ties with the EU.

In other words, Washington believes that when Brussels moves closer to Beijing, it will alienate Washington.

Yet China has never driven a wedge between the US and Europe. China's deepening cooperation with the EU is driven by common economic interests. In contrast, a string of moves by the incumbent administration in the US over the past four years have gravely undermined the EU's interests.

Washington's selfishness, as well as its arbitrariness and suppression over Europe, have deeply irritated EU officials. The inevitable consequence is that Brussels' trust in Washington has significantly declined. The US should reflect on its practices and adjust its foreign policy, instead of passing the buck to China.

The White House will usher in new president Joe Biden on January 20. Even though it is widely expected relations between the US and Europe will be reset under a Biden administration, it remains to be seen how they will improve.

In the transatlantic alliance, Europe is not the equal of the US. In the eyes of analysts, the EU hopes to become a player in geopolitics, rather than a chess piece. It pursues an equal status with the US in the transatlantic relationship. Completing the negotiations with China on the investment agreement will undoubtedly increase its bargaining chips for potential talks with the US. It can help the EU gain an advantageous position in future negotiations with the Biden administration.

However, it does not mean the China-EU investment agreement negotiations were directed at the US. Against the backdrop of the US promoting its unilateralism and trade protectionism, the talks attempted to address bilateral concerns and bring more economic opportunities in a bid to achieve a win-win result.

Two of the US' other allies, Japan and South Korea, are pushing forward a trilateral free trade agreement with China. In fact, US allies are clearly aware that if they intend to further develop their economies, they cannot miss any opportunities to coordinate with China in terms of economy.

No matter how vigilant the US is against China and how much it persuades and pressures its allies not to coordinate with China, it will not prevent them from cooperating with China.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1211694.shtml

https://twitter.com/x/status/1345797082209263616

To American : Doesn't matter how much you Crying, cannot change the fact that China Win a Decisive Battle for EU

A Winning for Humanity !

 

[Beidou2020]

Just another sign of American decline. Can’t even get its EU allies to do what it wants. This is what happened to the British empire in its last few years as an empire.

 

[Daniel808]

Portuguese Prime Minister: Blocking EU-China deal because of the US would be a ‘terrible sign’
By Luísa Meireles and Maria de Deus Rodrigues | Lusa.pt
13:00 (updated: 17:11)

This deal could cause tension with the new US administration weeks after Joe Biden proposed a transatlantic dialogue on "the strategic challenge posed by China's growing international assertiveness". [EPA-EFE/TIAGO PETINGA]



Europe must be an autonomous global actor and it would be “a terrible sign” if the EU blocked a recently concluded investment agreement with China in order to coordinate with Washington, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa told EURACTIV’s partner Lusa in an exclusive interview.

The EU and China reached last Wednesday (30 December) an agreement in principle on investment, which has been under negotiation for seven years.
However, the deal could cause tension with the new US administration weeks after President-elect Joe Biden proposed a transatlantic dialogue on “the strategic challenge posed by China’s growing international assertiveness”.

The EU and China agreed ‘in principle’ on Wednesday (30 December) to an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets and help redress what Europe sees as unbalanced economic ties.
EU leaders and China’s President Xi …


“It’s a process that was underway, it would also be a terrible signal for us to block this negotiation or to condition this negotiation according to others,” Costa said in response to a question about whether the EU should have coordinated this negotiation with the new US administration.

“If Europe wants to be a global actor, as it has to be, its strategic autonomy depends on being able to speak with each of the other global actors. It must relate to the United States, China, Australia and New Zealand, India, Africa. It has to relate to everyone and not just talk through others”, he added.
According to the Portuguese leader, whose country took over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 January, the agreement between Brussels and Beijing “guarantees reciprocal security of market opening” and “investment relations which ensure and respect all security rules on both sides”.

Africa and India top the agenda
Regarding Africa, which tops Portuguese EU presidency’s external agenda, the prime minister voiced hope that the evolution of the pandemic, which prevented holding an EU-African Union summit in 2020, would be possible “in the spring”.
“We have already told the President of the [European] Council, Charles Michel, that we have every interest and willingness […] for this summit to take place during our presidency, in Brussels of course, and we are working on that. I hope the pandemic will allow this,” he said, emphasising that “other avenues”, such as meetings with the different regional organisations of the African continent, are not possible.

“But I think it would be important, at a time when the African Union has signed a continental free trade agreement. This would have been a fantastic time for a meeting of the European Union and Africa”.
“The great strategic partnership that Europe has to establish is with the African continent, so I think it would be a mistake for Europe not to make holding this summit as the top of its priorities”, he said.
Costa also refereed to India, saying there are “all the conditions” for the EU-India Summit. “It could be a milestone in the EU’s future relationship with the Indian Union”.

EU divisions and the rule of law
He admitted that differences within the EU exist and must be accepted and resolved through dialogue, as Brexit was a “big enough rift”.
“I think it would be bad to try to pretend that there are no such differences, problems can only be solved when they are accepted and talked about frankly”, he said, adding that this reality should be accepted “without dramas and in all tranquillity”.
“Do not force anyone to make movements that they do not want to make, creating rifts. Brexit was a big enough rift, and nobody wants any more”, he said.

“It is obvious that today the 27 member states do not all have the same vision of what Europe should be, nor do they all have the same will that Europe is what it is […] Perhaps the presence of the UK had concealed many of these national positions, which were, shall we say, uncovered with the departure of the UK”, he said, citing the differences on issues such as migration or budgetary solidarity.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/po...l-because-of-the-us-would-be-a-terrible-sign/




Even Portuguese people says fvck to americans, and choose to Stand with China

Just another sign of American decline. Can’t even get its EU allies to do what it wants. This is what happened to the British empire in its last few years as an empire.

In 1990s we cannot imagine that EU nations will take side with China, in an Economic War between China and US.
But now 2020s this happen for real

Bye bye Trans-atlantic, Welcome Trans-Eurasia

 

[Daniel808]

Even Croatian people also take side with China.
When pompeo pressure him to badmouthing China's BRI (Belt & Road Initiative), he rebuts that in front of public

Imagine that, Croatian praise BRI (Belt & Road Initiative) in front of Anti-China Pompeo What a badass

 

[Uguduwa]

cringe thread

 

[Beidou2020]

Even Croatian people also take side with China.
When pompeo pressure him to badmouthing China's BRI (Belt & Road Initiative), he rebuts that in front of public

Imagine that, Croatian praise BRI (Belt & Road Initiative) in front of Anti-China Pompeo What a badass

This was brilliant. It shows hard power is the only thing that matters in the world. Soft power comes from hard power. Humans will always respect and fear hard power. That’s why humans gravitate to the richest and most powerful person.

 

[TaiShang]

This was brilliant. It shows hard power is the only thing that matters in the world. Soft power comes from hard power. Humans will always respect and fear hard power. That’s why humans gravitate to the richest and most powerful person.

Once medium and small powers smell weakness, they will jump the ship faster than Bush Jr. dodged the draft or Gordon Chang made a new prediction.

This the very nature of state. There's no loyalty. No sticky ideology. We all know that for the US democracy is a facade. The regime has as much faith in democracy as Trump in lyin' Ted.

Eventually, Eurasia will triumph, and the fears of British and US imperialists will materialize. It is just economics.

 

[Daniel808]

Once medium and small powers smell weakness, they will jump the ship faster than Bush Jr. dodged the draft or Gordon Chang made a new prediction.

This the very nature of state. There's no loyalty. No sticky ideology. We all know that for the US democracy is a facade. The regime has as much faith in democracy as Trump in lyin' Ted.

Eventually, Eurasia will triumph, and the fears of British and US imperialists will materialize. It is just economics.

After Asia-Pacific siding with China (Signing of RCEP), Central Asian, Moslem world, African Union also.
Now, European also siding with China (Signing China-EU Landmark Deal)

No one want to side with dying american economy. American economy become more isolated with this Trade War with China

 

[Beidou2020]

After Asia-Pacific siding with China (Signing of RCEP), Central Asian, Moslem world, African Union also.
Now, European also siding with China (Signing China-EU Landmark Deal)

No one want to side with dying american economy. American economy become more isolated with this Trade War with China

US will continue to get humiliated with each passing year as its power wanes.
I predict Philippines and South Korea will kick out American military bases in the not too distant future. They will get closer to China as they realise their economic AND security future is with China.

 

[bshifter]

Pompeo watching furiously "this wasn't on the script"
Croatian PM: "piss off, we welcome the return of the real economic super power"
What a complete humiliation for America.

 

[Han Patriot]

US will continue to get humiliated with each passing year as its power wanes.
I predict Philippines and South Korea will kick out American military bases in the not too distant future. They will get closer to China as they realise their economic AND security future is with China.

I think people need to understand in this world there are no permanent allies or foes, only interests. Few months ago, some yindoos here were shouting for blood, asking China to pay trillions in compensations, they said the whole world would demand it from China. What happened now? NOTHING

 

[qwerrty]

Pompeo watching furiously "this wasn't on the script"
Croatian PM: "piss off, we welcome the return of the real economic super power"
What a complete humiliation for America.

not the first time fat@ss lying pompoe he got humiliated in pubic



"Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Tuesday slammed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying "the world is not going to be a better place if some countries spend their time intervening in the internal political affairs of other countries" in response to a statement from the U.S. official that the use of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei's products would complicate the partnership between the U.S. and Hungary during a joint press conference in Budapest. "

https://www.rt.com/news/451231-pompeo-hungary-russia-china-hypocrisy/

 

[TaiShang]

not the first time fat@ss lying pompoe he got humiliated in pubic



"Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Tuesday slammed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying "the world is not going to be a better place if some countries spend their time intervening in the internal political affairs of other countries" in response to a statement from the U.S. official that the use of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei's products would complicate the partnership between the U.S. and Hungary during a joint press conference in Budapest. "

https://www.rt.com/news/451231-pompeo-hungary-russia-china-hypocrisy/

His skin is thicker than the Bible.

 

[KurtisBrian]

America was great WITHOUT ties to Europe. Ties with Europe and the world have destroyed America. Need to get them all out.
Trade war is NOTHING. It is about trying to prop up the once collapsing, and now hyperinflating due to money printing, world economy. It is about China now desperately trying to find SOMETHING to do with all the US reserves it is holding. DESPERATION.

 

[TaiShang]

I think Europe will try to find greater rapport with Russia, as well.

This may create tensions with anti-Russia Biden regime.