Germany's Foreign Minister "concerned" about China's "challenges." Reuters reported that before visiting Japan and Indonesia, German Foreign Minister Wang Defu raised unwarranted "concerns" about China, claiming, "The increasing 'provocative' actions of China in the Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, and South China Sea also affect Europe. The basic principles of our global coexistence are facing a crisis." He also smeared China, asserting, "China is challenging our economy with 'unfair and market-distorting trade practices.'"
This rhetoric is a naked version of the "China threat theory." Germany is located on the Atlantic coast but insists on making a show of presence far away from China's periphery, meddling in China's internal affairs, revealing the face of Western hegemony. Today's Germany is no longer what it used to be; it is deeply entangled in its own difficulties: becoming a minor player in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, burdened by energy and economic crises yet unable to break through, while the whole of Europe has lost strategic autonomy. Instead of reflecting on how to solve its own crises, it instead accuses and attacks China. It should be noted that China is no longer the weak nation that could be bullied a century ago. Germany's behavior of provoking trouble despite its own unsatisfactory situation is truly overreaching, only exposing its superficial strength and inner weakness.
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