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Wouldn't say China is 'dead against' the EU. China just does stuff which benefits them the most, I wouldn't say they have an inherent resentment towards the EU. And unlike the US, I believe China sees that the EU is a viable partner economically and that they would do themselves a disfavour if they were damaging those relations. Something the US doesn't understand, they just continue to isolate themselves further and further and suffer the consequences.
The EU's concern is that if China becomes too dominant, their authoritarian politics could permeate across.
However, you are right about from China's pov. They want to trade and be left alone (although, that doesn't mean that China may one day not try to exert wider influence). They are trying to revive the concept of China being the centre of the world. For the Chinese, they call their country "Zhongguo" meaning "Middle Kingdom". And before the European/Western dominance, countries were dying to form diplomatic and trade relations with China, which China kinda takes advantage of by demanding tributes from states who want to open relations. China knows they are the deal.
Well, USA is quite dominant and their imperial politics have been permeating across the world for quite some time.
Europe should probably focus inwards and try to gain more independence from outside actors. EU can do it, mostly, it just doesn't want to because milions of voters cannot outvote a lobbying company.
With the current nation state model, people tend to side with the "lesser evil". Before the second coming of Trump, people surveyed around the world expressed more favourable view of USA than China, although they trust neither.
Yeah. Democracy kinda forces lesser evil, no? Like you can't find politician that has platform of any value to you, but everyone tells you to vote regardless, so you end up voting for whoever looks like a lesser evil.
I'd say form of governance beyond every person being isolated and only ruling themselves forces lesser evil, it's very unlikely that any two people would always be in perfect alignment on every single conceivable issue. Of course in some systems you don't get a say you so you don't get to pick the option that you're the most aligned with at all.
If you can't find a politician close enough to your values, become one (or support someone you trust in doing so)
I'd also add: china wants european customers, and brands, a lot more than they want anything from the US.
The US is in an unspoken alliance with Russia and China. It is the new axis of evil and the EU should be very concerned.
You would have to be literally insane to think the US, literally the personification of the western world representing all of the values, and frankly all of the power, of all European-founded nations that have existed for the last four millennia, is on the same side as Russia -- who to be clear wants to be on the same side as Europe and the US but was roundly rejected after the fall of the USSR because of literal racism despite doing every single tiny thing every single western nation asked, much to their own damage; much less China who has been ostracized and victimized by the US and EU for longer than practically any other group.
The US and EU have been the axis of evil in the world. The EU has killed more civilians than Nazi Germany with its wars and previous and continued occupation of 'free' nations (that cannot go against their owners' orders without a military coup); and of course the US was the blue print for the nazis, quite famously even, and has killed so many more people around the world no intelligent person could possibly ever confuse them with 'good,' even in opposition to some mythologized evil.
It is the US and EU vs the entire world, as it has been since 1945 when battle lines were drawn that if you were not in central Europe or North America, you were either an enemy or a victim.
The EU can try to weasel their way out of the sinking ship now that the US is just open about everything they're doing -- and that is the only difference MAGA made, by the way, just that the US is too incompetent or uncaring to hide their atrocities -- but ultimately there is too much blood staining the hands of every EU citizen to ever be allies with anyone but the US.
At best they weaken themselves and make themself an enemy or a victim to the US, only one or the other exists to the US without the Eurosphere, and at worst they'll be speaking Russian and dealing with unregulated capitalism by the end of the decade unless they start letting fly the nukes.
China wants a '1st world nation' QOL without exploitation for every citizen, and prioritizes that. Russia wants to enrich its upper class as much as possible, and doesn't care if they step on EU toes to do so anymore since they WERE NOT REWARDED FOR DOING EVERYTHING THE WEST ASKED in the 1990s, and the US is the exact same as it has always been, except they ran out of victims in the Americas and aren't being polite about their genocides anymore.
Pick your poison EU.
You're getting down voted only because most people on this platform are from US and Europe.
While I get what Putin is doing now is indefensible, I have not heard a single explanation as to why Russia has been excluded from NATO and EU. Nor have I understood the western paranoia regarding China. And all I can surmise from this is that US and Europe have continued their exploitation of poor countries through corporations and tried to exclude Russia, China and their allies from the global order.
Both the EU and NATO require unaminous approval of existing members to add new members. Both organisations contain several members that have been under Russian domination within living memory. Given Russia's frequent aggression towards its neighbours in the post-Soviet period, why would the likes of the Baltic countries trust Russia to be a reliable ally?
Additionally, Russian just straight up does not meet the Copenhagen criteria to join the EU and doesn't have any measure of the pre-accession integration that every other applicant does
The US has been supporting Russia for a long time now and has also been in bed with China forever.
China is the fourth largest producer of arms providing weapons of murder to war torn regions. They are great because of US not despite it. With their new billionaire class they are looking a lot like a one-party version of the US government.
The EU is no saint as their policies have been linked to massive deaths and their member nations also supply arms used to kill civilians. I am unaware of EU wars killing so many people. This sounds like some pretty bizarre Russian propaganda.
You're unaware of the Rape of Africa, which has casualties in the tens of millions if not hundreds of millions depending on how far back you want to count?
That sounds about right for EU education.
France nearly invaded Burkino Faso when they took power back btw. So this isn't history. At least a dozen African countries are still puppet colonies for European powers and are the sole reason for the EU's wealth and status.
I am not from the EU. Your saying that European soldiers raped Africans? Or are you saying that historically countries from the EU with their imperialistic designs have caused massive suffering? I think the later is common knowledge amongst people who care about these topics.
France almost invaded? So they tried and failed to maintain imperialistic control and Russia has stepped in. Both China and Russia have greatly increased their imperialistic presence in Africa supplying these country with arms that are used to kill civilians.
I am not sure you really supported you statement about EU soldiers causing deaths. I am sure EU nations and the USA will be happy to supply arms to the opposing sides in these countries thus enabling the cycle of destruction by imperialistic powers as they fight for control. Making money off of both sides in the conflict are the arms dealers, they are the real winners.