That WY is willing to take such a hardened and no BS position with the EU suggest to me China may potentially be seeing good progress on their deal with the US. They are likely hedging their bets by now hardening their stance against the EU. The early data suggests US tariffs on China might be much lower than Trump and news initially reported. Only 7% to 25% depending on product category. That's much better than what US puppets received. Blocked categories of US exports to China have also seen significant loosening. And also have seen suggestions that negotiations towards the requirements before a Trump trip to Beijing is unlocked are making progress. My guess is that a Boeing purchase with strings attached (proof of resolving the technical and manufacturing issues with recent models, along with political strings) might be in the works as a carrot for the US. Hence the willingness to threaten taking away the Airbus deal.
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plawolf
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It’s not about benevolence or respect or any other soft power nonsense, the fundamental determining factors for how other countries and peoples treat you is based on your hard power and willingness to use it.
Chinese dynasties have overwhelmingly taken the benevolent adult power approach when dealing the neighbouring ‘barbarian’ powers. When China was strong, any such minnow powers that were not smart enough to play nice and reciprocate Chinese friendliness and peaceful intent were deleted by Chinese military hard power. The late Song were not exceptions because of their benevolence, and that benevolence was not the reason they got wrecked by the Jin and Liao, they were the exceptions because they allowed Chinese hard power to deteriorate to the point that it could not defend itself against the invading barbarians.
Modern China is in many ways returning China to its historical position in terms of hard power and how it used that power.
Unlike the Americans who pissed away it’s own hard power with endless foreign military misadventures and internal corruption and decay in science and technology; modern China prefers to build its own hard power via peaceful development and applies extreme discipline and restraint on itself to minimise its own foreign wars to best build and preserve its own hard power.
Due to racism, wilful ignorance and general inertia, the world at large is still vastly underestimating Chinese hard power, and will likely continue to do so until China fights its own Desert Storm and show the world beyond all possible doubt just how powerful Chinese hard power is now.
Maybe Kallas just started goose-steping around, heil hitlering loudly until Wang Yi snapped.
It's 100% calxulated. Nothing that China does on such a high level is done impulsively and fits a move made after a ton of consideration. Also, if China wanted to really threaten someone, they'd do it behind closed doors. This is a gentle reminder to the effect of "we haven't done anything yet, but we are absolutely able to, so quit it with your reckless rhetoric". I dobt the Europeans are capable of listening though.
China's strategy has been incredibly effective despite a ton of Western propaganda so I doubt that they're going to change it. Launching expeditonary wars like the Americans do is about the only thing that can wreck China's position so that's the last yhing they will do. We already got a signal about that with the recent deal with Vietnam.
They do understand the world "pain" though. Even guys like Jai Hinds will understand it when it truly is their turn.
I am pretty sure Finbarr is a US govt shill disguised as a journalist. He frames every interaction between China and the EU in a negative perspective, always bringing up negative aspects. He actively tries to always place doubt and conduct about the china Eu relationship in his articles. I too wonder why he is still at scmp.