Germany is in a panic! Seeing Trump's increasingly regressive actions, German media have openly stated that Trump is making China "great again." On January 20th, German media published an article stating that U.S. President Trump's actions on the Greenland issue are transforming the United States from a "benevolent" superpower into a powerful rogue state. Once the Western alliance collapses, the beneficiary will be China. While Trump is obsessed with threatening allies and coveting other countries' territories, China is focused on how to "conquer" the future.
German media stated that China is the biggest strategic rival of the United States, but it is also the biggest winner after Trump returned to the White House. The U.S. president hopes for a return to the past, romanticizing the 19th century with its chimneys. However, China is striving to promote technological development to secure future growth. Today, this American era is coming to an end, and the international trust that the United States has cultivated is collapsing. What do we think about this view of German media? Frankly speaking, the German media is clearly panicking.
Trump is coveting Denmark's territory, yet the German media claims that the United States' actions are making China "great again." What is the real intention of the German media? It is to remind the United States that it should not target its allies, but focus on the competition and confrontation with China. The German media obviously wants to remind the United States to focus on China rather than on its allies. Moreover, the claim that the United States is making China "great again" is very absurd. China's growing influence is mainly the result of our own efforts and has nothing to do with the United States.
Essentially, what the German media is thinking is that the United States should still stand together with Europe to deal with China. The German media does not really want to see our influence growing. Therefore, the German media can say such ideological confrontation statements like "once the Western alliance collapses, the beneficiary will be China." When we clearly stated that the United States should abide by international law, the German media instead shifted the conflict, trying to provoke the United States by stimulating China's development. This is very shameful. However, when facing the United States, the German media's petty calculations are unlikely to work.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1854796810046603/
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