According to the British media on the 24th, the European Commission began to formulate an "economic security plan" on the same day, which includes strengthening the review of foreign investment, tightening technology exports and outflows to competitors, including China.
At first glance, this content seems to be nothing unusual, but it is just part of the EU's conspiracy to follow the United States to "de-risk" China, to put it bluntly, to restrict economic cooperation with China through administrative power. Similar projects have been underway in the United States and Europe for a long time, so at such a time, it is necessary to pay attention to this matter, but it is not necessary to be surprised. However, it is worth noting that the US media has a bad premonition on this matter, believing that this plan is not only aimed at China, but against the so-called "high pressure" from China, Russia and even the United States.
China has not given the EU the so-called "high pressure", but if they have to say so, we can't help it, after all, the United States and the West have always liked to "demonize" other countries. Overall, it is likely that this "economic security plan" is aimed not only at China, but also at the United States and Russia. Why is this so? This may have something to do with the complexity of the EU's current situation.
We know that the current global situation is relatively grim, with the two major conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Palestine and Israel still fighting fiercely, and the situation in the Red Sea is also very serious. Europe, on the other hand, is the one that has suffered losses in all three crises at the same time. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, like the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, poses a threat to Europe's energy supply, because the United States and Britain's protection of Israel and the attack on the Houthis are likely to have an impact on European shipping.
Therefore, we can find that around these three major crises, although Europe's losses are not the largest, they can also rank among the top few. Last year, the EU's economy grew by only 0.6 percent, far worse than that of the super-economies of the same level, China and the United States. At the end of last year, the US media published an article pointing out that the EU has three major "diplomatic fools," namely EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Italian Prime Minister Meloni.
Although the diplomatic views of these three people are different, they have one thing in common: as long as the United States asks for it, they dare not oppose it. For example, Borrell advocates actively following the United States against Russia, von der Leyen is committed to following the United States against China and Russia, and Meloni is even more outrageous, and the United States hopes that Italy will withdraw from the "Belt and Road." To put it bluntly, the US media is ridiculing these three people for being led by the nose by the United States and making a mess of the European Union.
If we follow the United States and make a mess of our own country, and in the end we will be scolded by the US media as a "stupid person." Everyone will talk about whether this is a shame? It can be called "being sold and helping people to make money," which is simply a great shame! If we carefully analyze it here, we will be able to find that the EU's current predicament is indeed caused by the United States!
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the EU could have maintained objective neutrality and made efforts to promote peace talks, but under the leadership of the United States, it joined the camp of supporting Ukraine and sanctioned Russia, which had a huge impact on its own energy supply chain and consumed a lot of strategic resources. As for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the situation in the Red Sea, we have analyzed with you in the past that the matter was originally very easy to solve, and if Israel's atrocities in Gaza were stopped, the situation in the Red Sea would naturally return to normal, and peace would return to the Middle East.
It can be said that all the current crises in the EU are caused by the United States, and the most ironic thing is that the United States still claims that everything it has done is in the interests of the United States and the West, and asks the EU to support it. In fact, in the end, all this is just in the interests of the United States. Over time, the EU has also come back to its senses and has begun to tighten its vigilance against the United States.
Of course, now the united front of the 27 countries of the European Union has formulated an "economic security plan", which will definitely be aimed at China, but this time it is not China that is targeted, but China, Russia and the United States are challenged at the same time, which also means that a new crisis is approaching for China, and future cooperation with Europe may be affected.