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🧵I wrote recently that how #Europe rolls on #China going forward will define transatlantic relations. It’s not the first time I raised this issue. And I’m concerned that Europe’s leaders have not yet fully understood China’s strategy, and the stakes. 1/5 politico.eu/article/europe…
European leaders seem not to have fully recognized that Beijing is engaged in a massive geostrategic project to reconfigure Eurasia, build a blue ocean-going navy, and establish bases at critical pressure points in Africa, Europe, and, presumably, the High North. 2/5
As its access to the US R&D base becomes restricted, Beijing intends to harvest technology across the Continent. The current EU debate about “de-risking” has actually made many in Europe less attuned to the danger posed by continue Chinese commercial expansion. 3/5
If the transatlantic bond weakens, Europe could be disaggregated and, as #Russia progressively becomes Beijing’s vassal, subjected to Chinese political ans military domination down the line. To have a non-Western power—China—become dominant in Europe would be a game-changer. 4/5
If Europe continues to waffle on the nature of the existential threat posed by Beijing’s Eurasian strategy and allows France to chart its course on security and defense (Macron’s “strategic autonomy”), it may end up with marginal EU capabilities, and a hollowed-out NATO. 5/End
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