Thanks EU (tip to Instapundit)!
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has ruled out a transatlantic alliance against China and dismissed “systematic rivalry” with Beijing, just hours before he is due to talk to his US counterpart.
Just what would China have to do to fall below whatever standards the EU has--select Trump to lead them?
I've been highly skeptical that the EU is a natural ally of America for anything at all, let alone standing up to an evil communist/fascist dictatorship:
Europe isn't an automatic ally in a fight against autocracy that China promotes. Europe as we know it today, because of American influence, makes Europe a seemingly natural ally against autocracy.
Without American influence, I don't assume Europe in general will remain part of the family of free nations. Even if we weaken the EU's political ambitions and thwart the rise of that proto-imperial body trying to lop off the prefix, parts of Europe could become over time neutral or worse in the free world struggle against the People's Republic of China.
We may actually be lucky that the Xi Jinping Flu led China to drop their mask of peadeful growth a decade or more before they may have figured that they can afford to be more open about their ambitions.
Let us work to keep Europe in the "free world" column. If Europe loses that identity, there would be nothing natural about a European-American partnership to resist communist China.
Without the EU above them suppressing free world instincts, a number of European states could be firm allies of America to resist China.
If the proto-imperial EU keeps gaining powers over the states that make up the EU and remove that prefix, the EU will be a natural ally of China.
Why America doesn't work overtime to undermine the EU and free the member states from its political ambitions (while retaining free trade policies) is beyond me. The continued existence of the cheese-regulating surrender monkey EU is not in America's interest.
UPDATE: Even the "tough" Europeans simply insist on China opening up to European investment in China. Which would strengthen the Chinese economy.
But at least NATO head Rasmussen recognizes that America is morally superior to China:
I understand Europe wanting to chart its own course, given some differences with Washington, but in my eyes there is no moral relativism between Beijing and our long-time Nato ally.
But then, he works for NATO and not for the EU.
