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I hope that our European friends will take the opportunity to think about some of their past policies towards China and adopt at least a more positive position in their approach to China, he said.

Inside the corridors of Brussels, the promises of eternal friendship now resonate with diplomats who have become upset and humiliated by President Trumps America first approach to world diplomacy. Indeed, Beijing embarked on a charming offensive for current leaders bruised by insults and Trumps prices before the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Brussels and Beijing.

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Trump questioned the existence of NATO and struck Europe with pungent economic rates. The EU, he noted, was formed to screw the United States.

On the other hand, even Chinese supporters of the conflictual diplomacy of the nationalist wolf are more emollient. This has put alarm sounds that sound through the Atlantic and in certain European capitals concerned about the fact that Europe could derive to the East and not the West.

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Where we take a step back, China will intervene, James Obrien, a former American secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, warned the congress this week. In other words, Europe provides the most coherent and powerful set of partners. With the United States and Europe together, we have almost three times Russia and GDP combined chinas. Europe shares our values ​​as well as an irreplaceable history of 80 years.

However, diplomats told Times that Beijing's entrances do not fall into the ears of a deaf. Beijing suggests that China is Europe true and constant a friend was the speech of Brussels, Berlin, Paris and beyond. We see the openings and it is clear that China is trying to make hay, said an EU diplomat.

The diplomat noted that recent rhetoric has not been accompanied by changes in Chinese politics, in particular to help Russia escape Western sanctions targeting the war machine of Poutines. It is a big subject. Beautiful words are nice, of course, but for substantial realignment with China, something should be fundamentally changing on their side.

Some countries in northern European are concerned. A smiling wolf still has teeth, is he just friendly or are you his prey? said a diplomat from a European country who is a fellower on China.

Despite the reserves, the evidence rises that Trump leads Europeans to the neutral camp on the question of whether they should avoid taking sides in the rivalry between China and America for which will become the world's dominant power.

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In addition to the friendly openings, Chinese officials have aroused criticism from European countries so as not to be independent of the United States on foreign or commercial policy, arguments that resonate in many key capitals with solid economic ties with China. During the recent talks between EU ambassadors, diplomats coming back from Beijing for consultations in Brussels, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia urged closer links with China in response to Trump's hostility. Europe should not choose the parties between the United States and China. Trump proves it, said a Spanish diplomat.

At the end of February, while relations with Trump went from bad to worse, France welcomed my Zhaoxu, a senior Chinese diplomat and another wolf warrior for interviews in Paris. France and China must work together to defend multilateralism and advance peace and security, said Frdric Mondoloni, a superior French diplomat responsible for European political and security affairs.

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In the fall of last year, Deep Rifts EU opened its doors on European rates of 45 percent led to Chinese electric vehicles with publicly critical Spain and in Germany, alongside Hungary, voting against the measures. Later this month, Maros Sefcovic, the EUS trade commissioner, went to Beijing to try to resolve the dispute, possibly by attracting producers of Chinese electric cars in Europe.

There are now signs that Europe is evolving towards neutrality, a strong trend in southern Europe, notably France, Spain and Italy, in any future battle between Washington and Beijing for World Domination.

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In 2019, the EU described China as a systemic rival, but in 2023, an internal diplomatic newspaper in Brussels stressed that the block should remain outside a null binary competition between Washington and Beijing.

Daniel Kochis, of the Hudson Institute, an American conservative group, warned that Washington was losing the argument that Europe has an interest in taking sides in the undergoing fight between a future led by the United States and its Democratic allies and a led by China.

Chinese diplomatic and economic integration efforts in Europe have sought to promote the account of a third path in which Europe is in the American and Chinese poles, rather than aligning itself higher with the United States, he said. This gentle neutrality was to materialize, would greatly hinder the future American strategy to force China.

Kochis stressed the figures showing that from 2013 to 2021, China provided $ 133 billion for infrastructure projects across Europe, against only $ 12 billion in the United States.

The decline in Europe in a major way will invariably harm American interests, he said. China is systematically competition with the United States for influence in Europe.