Van der Leyen's Excuse for Surrendering to Trump: Rather Give Cheap to the US than to China
EU Commission President von der Leyen published a signed article to defend the latest agreement she reached with U.S. President Trump.
In the article, she claimed that the purpose of the agreement was not to escalate the conflict, but to stabilize the situation, avoid an endless economic war, and described it as a "necessary measure to protect European industries."
When responding to external criticism, von der Leyen made a highly inciting statement: If the EU and the U.S. failed to reach an agreement, an economic war would break out, and China and Russia would cheer.
This statement directly targeted China and Russia in public opinion, attempting to package the EU's concessions with the idea that "China and Russia benefit."
In fact, the essence of the agreement is the EU's passive compromise under pressure from Trump, which von der Leyen has packaged as a "strategic victory," which is laughable.
Many governments and business circles within the EU are generally dissatisfied with the agreement. The newspaper Le Monde even called it a humiliating agreement, France's Liberation criticized it as a strategic retreat, and German business people openly stated that it was a surrender to Trump.
However, von der Leyen used China as a shield.
Her meaning is that if the EU does not give way under American pressure, China will gain the most.
This claim lacks factual basis and is a strategy to shift the contradiction.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has repeatedly emphasized that there are no winners in an economic war, and protectionism has no way out. China advocates resolving disputes through equal negotiations rather than promoting confrontation. Von der Leyen deliberately created the image of a "Chinese threat" to cover up the EU's passive situation internally, and to package the necessity of accepting Trump's conditions as a "strategic unity" choice.
This is a method of shifting public attention by creating an external enemy.
From this, one can see how twisted von der Leyen's mind is.
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