The leaders of France and Germany have issued a challenge to the next U.S. president: to recognize significant shifts in interests and a corresponding need to break with President Joe Biden's European strategy. The next president will have to recenter America's priority relationships in Europe…
The leaders of France and Germany have issued a challenge to the next U.S. president: to recognize significant shifts in interests and a corresponding need to break with President Joe Biden's European strategy. The next president will have to recenter America's priority relationships in Europe toward nations in the north and east of the continent. The need for such a shift can be summed up in two words: Communist China.
If China succeeds in replacing the U.S.-led democratic order with an imperial order of feudal mercantilism, global prosperity and freedom will no longer be protected. The U.S. must thus now prioritize its relations with allies that recognize Beijing's challenge and stand willing to confront it. Australia and Japan stand out in the Pacific. But there are a few other positive spots. India, once a cause for hope in China, clearly views its U.S. partnership as a one-way street.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz adopts an even more overtly China-sympathetic policy. He became the first EU leader to meet with Xi in Beijing, following the 20th Communist Party Congress. That October coronation saw Xi become the party's new Mao Zedong, an all-powerful leader of destiny.
Take Scholz's new essay for Foreign Affairs magazine, titled"The Global Zeitenwende." What he defines as an"epochal tectonic shift," Scholz first adopted the Zeitenwende term following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine. As part of this new thinking, Scholz pledged a major increase in German defense spending. He said he would end years of underinvestment in the German military and meet NATO's 2%-of-GDP spending target.
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