Timothy Birdnow

Europe is splitting from China.

Europe Just Declared Independence from China

From the Bloomberg article:

Wang showed up hoping to hear the softer tones to which he’s accustomed from Europeans, who remain more eager than the Americans to keep trading and doing business with China. Instead, he was surprised at the amount of resistance he was picking up underneath the formal niceties.

But those dissonances were as nothing compared with his stopover in Berlin. Speaking to German reporters, Wang lashed outat the president of the Czech Senate, Milos Vystrcil, who had taken a delegation to visit Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory. Vystrcil would "pay a heavy price,” threatened Wang, fuming that the Czech’s "betrayal” made him "an enemy of 1.4 billion Chinese people.”

This elicited a prompt response from Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister. Standing next to Wang at their joint press conference, Maas reminded his visitorthat "we as Europeans act in close cooperation” and demand respect, and that "threats don’t fit in here.” The EU wouldn’t become a "plaything” in the Sino-American rivalry, he added. Colleagues from France, Slovakia and other European countries quickly backed him up.”

Looks like the Euroweenies are finally growing a spine.

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