How should European countries position themselves in the growing geopolitical and technological contest between America and China?
HOW SHOULD European countries position themselves in the growing geopolitical and technological contest between America and China? As allies of America in a new cold war? Or as a third force balancing between the two poles? Such questions hung thick in the air at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, where world leaders, diplomats and spies gathered for their yearly security-policy jamboree, which ended on February 16th.
For John Chipman, director-general of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a think-tank in London, “Essentially [Mr] Esper used his speech in Munich to announce the fact of a US-China cold war with technological competition at its core.” Right now, that competition is centred on Huawei.
They would seem to include Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s president, who opened the conference with a call for Europe to “invent its own answer to the seminal shift in spheres of power and influence”. The continent “must find its own balance with China, finding an equilibrium between increasing inter-system competition and the necessary co-operation,” said Mr Steinmeier, spurning Mr Pompeo’s stark choice between “a free West” and “illiberal alternatives”.
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