Dialogue of the deaf: Europe and China

New Thinking for a New World · Dec 21, 2022 · 33m

Andrew Small explain how and why he thinks that the Chinese challenge is dramatically and dangerously changing.

As recently as September 2021, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel described economic relations between Europe and China as "win-win.” Within nine months, the EU's de facto Foreign Minister Josep Borrell described EU-China relations as "a dialogue of the deaf."

Geopolitics rarely moves at that speed. Even if by then Merkel was trying to gild her legacy and Borrell often says the wrong thing at the wrong time, there is no doubt that the prevailing view of China in many European…