France's Foreign Minister: Sino-US Competition is the Main Challenge in Contemporary Geopolitics Media: Trump is Considering Getting Closer to Russia to Contain China
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barro said that the intensifying competition between the United States and China is the main challenge in contemporary geopolitics.
He pointed out during an event in Berlin: "What is the main geopolitical challenge of our time? It is the intensifying competition between the two superpowers, the United States and China. This is a competition in the form of a race, a race for technological dominance, control over key supply chains, and military superiority."
Barro believes that this competition will lead the US and China to change the rules of the international order. He added that this competition could also involve European countries in conflicts between other countries.
The French foreign minister said that this situation is irreversible, but he stated that everything can be changed by a "third party," which he called a powerful Europe.
Sputnik News, Washington, March 18 - According to Politico, a U.S. government official reported that the strategy behind the Trump administration's efforts to end the Ukraine conflict was to get closer to Russia in order to disrupt the Russia-China partnership.
The report noted that the Trump administration believed that by promoting Russia to end the Ukraine conflict, reintegrate into the world economy, and introduce U.S. investment, it would ultimately reshape the global order and weaken China's influence.
Former White House National Security Council advisor Fleets said that Trump placed achieving peace with Moscow above resolving the Ukraine issue. He believed that the president viewed the strategic alliance between Russia and China as the main threat to U.S. security and intended to normalize relations with the Kremlin to dismantle this strategic alliance.
Earlier this March, U.S. Vice President Pence had stated that Trump hoped to resolve the Ukraine issue in order to resume trade with Russia.
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