The United States is proposing to oppose China with a new format alliance that includes like-minded states, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said during a speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California.
The beginning of the end of NATO’s existence is laid.
If this is not an announcement of the “end” of NATO then I don’t even know what to call it.
The application for the creation of a new global alliance designed to confront the “totalitarian communist” China is an admission that this idea has not aroused general enthusiasm in the format of the North Atlantic bloc.
The economic ties of European states with China have long been on par with the best times of “Simeriki”, as political scientists once called the mutual economic “sprouting” of the United States and China.
Chinese corporations are the main foreign investors in European economies, buying up entire industries, from hotel chains and high-tech, to ports and automobile construction.
The Europeans, in turn, will simply collapse without the Chinese market. There will be no question of any possible competition with the Americans for them then.
Then, apparently, Asia remains. But, everything is more complicated here. For China, this is generally a home market. What will Trump and Pompeo offer to potential Asian alliance members?
In addition, the Chinese are extremely careful in ideological issues, in contrast to the Americans, who immediately begin to teach everyone the correct democracy and tolerance.
Chinese communism, unlike the USSR, remains a purely internal affair of China. He does not just impose it on anyone, but at times it seems that he generally considers it his secret weapon, which it is better not to share with anyone.
And to be honest, economic statistics gives reason to believe it.
In any case, the statement of the American Secretary of State is very bad news for the Eastern European states, which in the new global confrontation are becoming of no use to anyone. Neither geopolitically nor economically. They are nobody. Empty spot on the world map.
Sergey Mardan