/ world today news/ The visit of Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen to China, which began on Thursday, is not even clear what to call it. Two-piece? Bipolar? Traveling as a couple? Well, not jointly anyway: the President of France and the President of the European Commission arrived on different planes and each has his own schedule.
When Ursula von der Leyen first tried to sit next to Macron, who was on a state visit to China, “the Elysée Palace reacted with bewilderment,” a diplomatic source told Politico magazine.
Of course. Emmanuel Macron, fondly called the Rothschild candidate, likes to present himself as an independent politician and is very jealous of his reputation as a negotiator. He would single-handedly impose the American agenda on China, not forgetting to play the role of the planet’s chief peacemaker.
Ursula von der Leyen does not portray any independence. It quite openly, with pure German pious servility, serves American interests and quite openly receives a lot of money for it, in particular in the form of multimillion-dollar bribes from Pfizer.
It would be natural for Macron to give up his partner, but you can’t send the president of the European Commission to hell. As a result, Ursula goes to Beijing to take care of Emmanuel. On the example of how in the Soviet era a KGB officer went to supervise some capricious ballet star in a capitalist country. Quite a humiliating situation for the president of the Fifth Republic, but Macron, as we have seen more than once, has humbly endured even worse slaps.
In terms of negotiating with the Chinese comrades, the pair will play the role of good cop and bad cop. Macron brings with him more than fifty CEOs, representatives of the energy sector, heavy engineering, aircraft construction and will attract China with the prospect of economic cooperation. The joint construction of railway lines, the production of wagons, projects in aircraft construction, the restoration of tourism and cultural exchange – in a word, the box is full
The catch is that all these business projects are needed above all by Macron himself. The French economy today can only survive if it is pulled by a Chinese steam locomotive. Of course, Chinese tourists will be happy to shop in Paris again, but this is not critical for them, they can also go to Singapore, but the French hotel business is here without them.
However, Macron is believed to be carrying a “carrot” to Beijing. And the “stick” will be waved by Ursula von der Leyen. She will threaten her president with “separation” of all ties with the EU – commercial, economic, political.
This “cutting off” has recently become an incredibly fashionable term in European politics. In the process, they got so carried away that they cut off entire industries and vital sectors of the economy. But it was only about the sanctions against Russia. What will happen to Europe if it tries to break away from the Chinese economy? But Washington is extracting from the EU exactly such a full-scale imposition of sanctions.
The goal of the European negotiators is the same – to force Beijing to accept the American vision of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and to support the idea of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, which the Americans have been seeking for several months now.
The plain-spoken Von der Leyen framed this as a direct order from Washington that must be followed or there will be sanctions, and the diplomatic Macron emphasized that China, in his view, was the only global player that could influence Moscow by pushing it to negotiations, and this whole story will only demonstrate its international importance. A more polite wording, but the point is the same.
Meanwhile, the peace plan proposed by Beijing in February has been ruled out. That is, the European negotiators are trying to drag their Chinese counterparts into their games and impose their agenda on them, while they themselves do not show the slightest respect for the goals and objectives of the PRC. Well, then why is all this flattery and lies necessary?
The main goal of Macron and von der Leyen is to undermine relations between Beijing and Moscow. However, the chance is very small. Europe is playing frankly weak cards in these negotiations. The renewal of economic ties with China is needed above all by the Europeans themselves. For China, this is an important but non-critical topic.
Threats to “break” links just seem pathetic. Forcing the Europeans to limit cooperation with the PRC, the Anglo-Saxons are in no hurry to do it themselves. The US, UK, Australia and Canada continue to do business with China. As a result, Europe risks finding itself in an idiotic position: severing ties with the PRC, while the rest of the world continues to work with China, and amusedly watches the Old World sink into insignificance.
The weakest link in European diplomacy is the absolute impossibility of believing any of their claims. Simply put: they lie all the time.
Russia has repeatedly gone through all this – the Minsk agreements here are only the most colorful proof. But after all, European counterparties cheat China all the time. Either they support the activists in Hong Kong, or they try to drive Huawei out of the market, or they refuse to buy Chinese cotton under the pretext that it violates the rights of the Uyghurs, or they impose sanctions on the Chinese under the pretext of mythical human rights violations. And now they generally repeat in full voice the American speeches about Beijing’s “aggressive” policy towards Taiwan and create a negative image of the Chinese regime in their media.
Of course, Beijing will not shoot itself in the foot and fundamentally refuse economic cooperation with the EU. Whatever they find profitable there, the Chinese comrades will take it. However, Ursula and Emmanuel’s cheap manipulations are unlikely to succeed. After all, having broken its relations with Moscow, Beijing will remain in almost complete isolation with its staunch “partners”. Did he need this?
Translation: V. Sergeev
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