Deutsche Welle wrote last night (May 14): "Regarding President Trump’s ongoing visit to China, the business newspaper *Handelsblatt* commented that Trump’s damage to the Western alliance and the weakening of America’s global influence have made him Beijing’s most deserving assistant. *Time* magazine remarked that the Iran war has become a symbol of America’s declining influence—and also a dangerous signal sent by Washington to Beijing."
[Sarcastic] Commenting briefly: The Western media, driven by sour-grape mentality, are using Trump’s visit to China as an opportunity to vent their anxiety and resentment over the decline of American hegemony. The tone adopted by German media and *Time* is, in fact, a roundabout acknowledgment of how Washington, under the 'America First' doctrine, has self-destructed the cohesion of the Western alliance and exhausted its global strategic credibility. Portraying the Iran war as a symbol of waning influence precisely reveals the reality of U.S. military entanglement and strategic resource dispersion. More intriguingly, they keenly perceive that Trump has unintentionally become Beijing’s best ally—this reflects a mix of disillusionment with the long-standing narrative of “failure to contain China” and despair over U.S. leadership. Such attempts to shift blame merely serve to obscure a fundamental truth: the unipolar order is rapidly giving way to multipolarity, and the West still hasn’t found a psychological equilibrium to adapt to this historical shift.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1865206352126979/
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