That's old news. A week or so ago, EU foreign affairs commissioner openly said that the goal of the US-EU talks is to restrict China and don't allow it to advance
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But I have very high hopes for the direction china is taking this year alone, they finally realised young naive minds needs to be protected, now the gov is advocating the 3 pillars of Chinese society again and showing "china in the classics" series on cgtn, I deem it the best protection .
Good luck to these ding dongs
Yeah, I know about the comments of Joseph Borell. There is little I miss these days about those vile white supremacist politicians.
To be honest.... China rise in the industrial chain actually threatens the EU more than the US. And that's because the EU has based its industry to produce intermediate goods which a rising China directly threatens
Few people remember but the EU was the one who was actively courting the US to team up against China's technological rise during Trump's administration
However Trump being Trump (god bless), tanked this effort by his idiotic moves so the EU had to sat it out and wait for the next president
And you know in a competition between China vs the EU, China wins 10 times out of 10. EU has exactly 0 hope to compete with the juggernaut called China
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I used to think the EU would be the kingmaker in the contest between China and America, but these days I think the EU is essentially a neutral party and peripheral factory due to is own internal governance structure.
The EU can only operate under consensus, but these days both America and China have effective veto power to tank any proposals too blatantly targeted against one or the other.
So long as you are not stupid and open fire with the first shot on the EU to force a response (like Trump’s trade war against the EU), they will never be able to overcome their own internal differences and rivalries to decisively take a side.
Instead what we are likely to see are going to be increasingly rouge acts by individual pro-American countries to provoke China into responding, and then running and hiding behind the EU’s skirts. The current Lithuanian Taiwan BS stunt is a classic example.
Hell, I would say the EU would more likely end up being pulled apart by the Sino-US Cold War rather than be able to take a side as a whole.
The biggest practical impact the EU will have on the Sino-US Cold War is limit how close China and Russia can get and work together. But that’s largely a non-issue as China has the confidence to go toe-to-toe with America on its own rather than needing to borrow strength and seek affirmation from allies.
The EU can only operate under consensus, but these days both America and China have effective veto power to tank any proposals too blatantly targeted against one or the other.
So long as you are not stupid and open fire with the first shot on the EU to force a response (like Trump’s trade war against the EU), they will never be able to overcome their own internal differences and rivalries to decisively take a side.
Instead what we are likely to see are going to be increasingly rouge acts by individual pro-American countries to provoke China into responding, and then running and hiding behind the EU’s skirts. The current Lithuanian Taiwan BS stunt is a classic example.
Hell, I would say the EU would more likely end up being pulled apart by the Sino-US Cold War rather than be able to take a side as a whole.
The biggest practical impact the EU will have on the Sino-US Cold War is limit how close China and Russia can get and work together. But that’s largely a non-issue as China has the confidence to go toe-to-toe with America on its own rather than needing to borrow strength and seek affirmation from allies.
China already won in producing intermediate goods, only thing EU really has is brand recognition question how long until local brands start eroding that in Asia.
Just look at where the EU car makers are sourcing their EV tech from a lot of China companies are part of that supply chain.
Pft, never mind that EU and Japan are in direct economic competition, none of these characters can resist backstabbing each other when there's money to be made:
Tom Fowdy is exactly the kind of media smarts that China needs. His pieces are often compelling. What a shame all round.
For the pre-1980’s, a lot. For the military side, Ye Fei (Filipino-Chinese PLA general), Hong Thuy (Vo Nguyen Bac, a Vietnamese born PLA general) and the Chinese Jamaican officer that another user brought up are some of them. For the STEM aspect, technically Hua Luogeng and Qian Xuesen count as well despite being born in China. There are countless others that I heard of but unfortunately forgot. Regardless, don’t conflate them with the modern era of overseas Chinese; a decent majority of which, tbh and unfortunately, shouldn’t even be considered Chinese anymore.
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