At present, the general understanding of the world is that the United States and Europe are united in dealing with China and Russia, and they seem to be a rock-solid Western camp. However, the divergence of economic interests between the United States and Europe will inevitably cause them to create huge cracks. Their cooperation today threatens to move towards tomorrow's division due to conflicting economic interests.
In fact, the increasingly isomorphic economic structures of the United States and Europe are the source of their contradictions, while the Chinese and American economies are disorganized.
In terms of economic structure, there are distinct industrial levels in the world's industrial chain: the United States and Europe belong to high-end industries, China belongs to the mid-end industries, and India and Africa belong to low-end industries.
In the early days of reform and opening up, when China was a low-end industry, the United States supported China. The opening up of the United States to China's market, capital, and investment has played a great role in China's industrialization. At that time, the United States was uniting with China to target the Soviet Union, so why did the United States not regard China as a hostile country?
At that time, China was also a socialist country, so it was not politically the reason for the good or bad relations between China and the United States, but mainly the geo-economic relations between China and the United States.
The problem now is that China's economy has moved from the low-end to the mid-to-high-end, and will soon enter the high-end economic field such as the United States and Europe, which is the reason for the panic in the United States and Europe.
However, the United States and Europe are almost the same economic structure, and they are both countries that belong to high-end industries in the industrial structure, and there must be competition between high-end industries, and this kind of competition is much stronger than competition in different structures.
Originally, there was no competition between China and the United States, but now that the mainland has developed, there will be competition. However, Europe and the United States have formed an existing competitive relationship under the same industrial level. Therefore, as soon as Trump came to power, he immediately showed a confrontational attitude towards Europe, openly confronted Europe, and issued huge fines to Europe, because the United States and Europe are economically isomorphic.
After Biden came to power, Biden did not talk about economic and economic conflicts on the surface, and talked about the political alliance between Europe and the United States, but under the slogan of political alliance, on the one hand, he provoked the Russian-Ukrainian war and dealt a heavy blow to the European economy and security. Looking back now, the Russian-Ukrainian war is the most advantageous for the United States, selling arms, oil and gas, and attracting all the European safe-haven funds to the United States, raising Europe's energy prices very high, making it impossible for European energy-using industries to survive, so as to transfer to the United States. That is, Biden used a tactical means to strike a full-scale blow at Europe. On the other hand, the United States took advantage of the appreciation of the dollar to continue to hit the euro, and the euro depreciated by more than 40%, which dealt a heavy blow to the euro, hit European industries, hit the living standards of the European people, and hit the European economy.
The Biden administration, shouting about the US-EU grand alliance, is actually roasting Europe on the flames of war. It can be seen that the US attack on Europe is the unanimous attitude of the US political circles.