The website of the German "Daily Mirror" published a report entitled "What lessons did the Munich Security Conference bring to us?" on the 16th. The Munich Security Conference (MUM) provides a perspective on the New World Order, with four areas worth paying attention to. The article is compiled as follows:
Angela Merkel did not attend the Munich Security Conference, but people are still talking about her. French President Emmanuel Macron is angry because he always has to wait for Berlin. When it comes to harmonizing standards for weapons systems or developing more influence within the European Union, the voices of chaos can usually only be heard in the Grand Coalition Government of Germany.
Macron called on France to work closely with Germany and that everything else could turn into a "historic mistake." Thus, for the first time, he met with the two presidents of the German Green Party, Annalena Berberk and Robert Hubbeck, during the Munich Security Conference. Their dinner lasted 3 hours and Macron immediately invited them to visit Paris. But many in Germany's grand coalition government don't know how to position themselves in Munich.
On the one hand, there are calls for "strengthening Europe" and investment, and announcing a greater role in security policy in order to maintain their position in competition with other world powers. However, under pressure from the SPD, Germany will end its "whirlwind" reconnaissance mission against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq at the end of March. Wolfgang Isinger, president of the Munich Security Council, was angry because he could no longer hear any more talk about "taking on more responsibility."
The euro, the internal market, the removal of borders. Possible future CDU leader and prime ministerial candidate Laschet said: "Today the French president made a proposal and it will take us a relatively long time to respond. Senior politicians in other EU countries, as well as opposition politicians in Germany, are fiercely debating whether Merkel is still capable of taking advantage of Germany's presidency of the EU Council from July to make a breakthrough – or whether it makes more sense to end Germany's current political impasse.
The United States is still demanding a ban on Huawei
There is considerable disagreement between the United States and several EU countries over whether Chinese network provider Huawei should participate in the construction of 5G networks in countries such as Germany. Participants revealed that the U.S. government has threatened to buy Huawei's Swedish rival Ericsson if necessary in order to enable Ericsson to provide technology for future data networks at a similar level, including price, with Huawei.
According to participants in the confidential meeting, Deutsche Telekom has been heavily criticized for "relying too much" on Chinese Huawei's technology. On this issue, U.S. Democrats are aligned with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Annalena Berberk, one of the double chairmen of the German Green Party, has proposed the creation of a European consortium similar to the Airbus group, with the aim of solving the problem together, as 6G will eventually emerge after 5G.
The law of might prevails
It is no longer rules-based multilateralism that is dominant, but power. Trump values deals, and his model of thinking is "winner-loser, winner, winner." The United States is increasingly emerging from the epicenter of conflict, and Europe can no longer rest under the Umbrella of the United States.
The biggest glue in the West is still NATO. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stressed that Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty remains "the core of NATO": when a country is attacked, the alliance reacts together. This has a strong deterrent effect.
On the other hand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear that the situation on NATO's eastern wing could escalate. NATO's expansion of military infrastructure to the east, unprecedented exercises near the Russian border, and a surge in defense budgets — all of which he criticized in Munich have led to unpredictability.
He warned of the "barbarization of international relations." Many countries are trying to prepare for a new era by having more modern weapons — or, like Iran, trying to get an atomic bomb.
Power is shifting, but U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has avoided Trump's policies that do nothing to build trust. Pompeo prophesied, "The West will triumph." "But he didn't link that to a stable partnership." Today, he said, anyone prefers to study in Cambridge rather than caracas. Sometimes there may be opportunities in crises: it is precisely the COVID-19 pandemic that shows how much multilateral cooperation can be in addition to relationship ruptures and chaos.
Break with the United States
A head of government in a Western European country said in a background discussion that Trump is trying to "bilateralize" the world, splitting it into purely separate relationships and fighting a decisive battle with each country alone. As a result, many countries are looking for alternative partners out of frustration and self-preservation, and U.S. attention in many policy areas is declining.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for example, once again publicly promoted his country's diversification strategy shortly after Trump's election on the big stage of the Munich Security Conference. Trudeau stressed that Canada is now the first country to enter into a free trade agreement with all other G7 countries, so it has priority access to two-thirds of the world's markets.
This is an eloquent "mockery" of the United States. The EU is also mimicking Canada and is looking for new trading partners. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has targeted the expansion of friendship with countries such as Japan and Australia by proposing a "multilateral alliance" .
U.S. Democratic Senator Kleist Cons, a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, assured that that would change if a Democrat was elected president. He told the Daily Mirror: "The Democratic administration will refocus on human rights, value global action and use diplomacy more as a means of change." ”