The EU’s concern is that if China becomes too dominant, their authoritarian politics could permeate across.
However, you are right about from China’s pov. They want to trade and be left alone (although, that doesn’t mean that China may one day not try to exert wider influence). They are trying to revive the concept of China being the centre of the world. For the Chinese, they call their country “Zhongguo” meaning “Middle Kingdom”. And before the European/Western dominance, countries were dying to form diplomatic and trade relations with China, which China kinda takes advantage of by demanding tributes from states who want to open relations. China knows they are the deal.
Well, USA is quite dominant and their imperial politics have been permeating across the world for quite some time.
Europe should probably focus inwards and try to gain more independence from outside actors. EU can do it, mostly, it just doesn’t want to because milions of voters cannot outvote a lobbying company.
With the current nation state model, people tend to side with the “lesser evil”. Before the second coming of Trump, people surveyed around the world expressed more favourable view of USA than China, although they trust neither.
Yeah. Democracy kinda forces lesser evil, no? Like you can’t find politician that has platform of any value to you, but everyone tells you to vote regardless, so you end up voting for whoever looks like a lesser evil.
I’d say form of governance beyond every person being isolated and only ruling themselves forces lesser evil, it’s very unlikely that any two people would always be in perfect alignment on every single conceivable issue. Of course in some systems you don’t get a say you so you don’t get to pick the option that you’re the most aligned with at all.
The EU’s concern is that if China becomes too dominant, their authoritarian politics could permeate across.
However, you are right about from China’s pov. They want to trade and be left alone (although, that doesn’t mean that China may one day not try to exert wider influence). They are trying to revive the concept of China being the centre of the world. For the Chinese, they call their country “Zhongguo” meaning “Middle Kingdom”. And before the European/Western dominance, countries were dying to form diplomatic and trade relations with China, which China kinda takes advantage of by demanding tributes from states who want to open relations. China knows they are the deal.
Well, USA is quite dominant and their imperial politics have been permeating across the world for quite some time.
Europe should probably focus inwards and try to gain more independence from outside actors. EU can do it, mostly, it just doesn’t want to because milions of voters cannot outvote a lobbying company.
With the current nation state model, people tend to side with the “lesser evil”. Before the second coming of Trump, people surveyed around the world expressed more favourable view of USA than China, although they trust neither.
Yeah. Democracy kinda forces lesser evil, no? Like you can’t find politician that has platform of any value to you, but everyone tells you to vote regardless, so you end up voting for whoever looks like a lesser evil.
I’d say form of governance beyond every person being isolated and only ruling themselves forces lesser evil, it’s very unlikely that any two people would always be in perfect alignment on every single conceivable issue. Of course in some systems you don’t get a say you so you don’t get to pick the option that you’re the most aligned with at all.
If you can’t find a politician close enough to your values, become one (or support someone you trust in doing so)