In recent months, the frequency of interaction between China and the EU has been very high. At the end of last year, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Belgian Prime Minister De Croo visited China; at the end of February this year, Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Spain and France and attended the Munich Security Conference in Germany; at the end of March, Dutch Prime Minister Rutte and French Foreign Minister Céjourne visited China; and on April 8, special climate envoys from the European Union, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Denmark visited China to seek closer cooperation with China. And on April 14, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also started a trip to China. There is even information that the Chinese leader will also visit Europe in early May. #MCN首发激励计划#
Why do China and the EU interact so frequently? Because the EU is about to usher in a major event in June, that is, the European Parliament elections, and this election may change the fate of both China and Europe at the same time. #欧洲会议#
We know that the European Union today lacks independence, because the United States has been controlling Europe in three ways: one is to exaggerate the Russian threat, the second is to station troops and sell arms, and the third is to control the European Parliament.
There are more than 700 seats in the European Parliament, all of which are directly elected and not appointed by governments. In theory, this would allow parliamentarians to be more representative of the will of member states, but in practice it has allowed the United States to take advantage of the loophole – since parliamentarians are not appointed by member states, and the United States can control them by various means, the European Parliament often has a situation where parliamentarians and member governments are at odds. And once the European Parliament adopts a resolution, even if the governments of the member states do not approve of it, it must be obediently implemented.
The European Parliament elections are held every five years, and the last election was in 2019, when the Russia-Ukraine conflict had not yet broken out, but those parliamentarians had successfully tied the EU to the American chariot, and because China and Russia maintained normal trade exchanges, their deputy speaker even visited Taiwan in 2022, disgusting us. Now that anti-Russia has become politically correct in Europe, what kind of ghosts, snakes, and spirits will the European parliamentarians elected this year be? It is no exaggeration to say that if China and other European countries do not take any more measures, the EU may "decouple" from China as the United States wishes.
China and the EU are each other's second largest trading partners, with an annual trade volume of more than 800 billion euros, and neither the European economy, which has been hit hard by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, nor the Chinese economy, which has been suppressed by the United States, can no longer bear the consequences of China-EU decoupling. Therefore, in order to survive, the top level of China and Europe has taken action!
However, the infiltration of the United States into Europe has been pervasive, and Europe's fear of Russia is indeed indestructible, and it is still unknown whether Europe will be able to regain its strategic autonomy. What's more, the EU's industry is relatively high-end, while China is speeding up industrial upgrading, can China and the EU still cooperate more than they differ from each other in the long run? At least Yellen has just complained about China's "overcapacity" and the EU has launched a countervailing investigation against China's wind turbine companies, which shows how much Europe is afraid of "developed country grinders."
So for Europe, we can only try to fight for it, but we must not put our eggs only in their baskets. Since only by complementing each other in industries can the relationship be close, then China should pay more attention to its brothers in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Why Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and not Latin America? Because where a country's military power can be projected, its national interests can be reached, and the order of ranking itself represents strategic priorities.
In Asia, ASEAN is the closest to China, has a large population and a huge market, and China is each other's largest trading partner. Since April, Southeast Asian countries have set off a wave of visits to China: Indonesian President-elect Prabowo broke with the usual practice and chose China for his first foreign visit; Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Salonxay, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, and Timor-Leste Foreign Minister Ben Dito in Guangxi; Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand, President of the National Assembly of Vietnam Ong Dinh Hue, and Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat of Singapore also visited China one after another. It can be seen that the two sides attach great importance to each other.
The close relationship between China and ASEAN is due to the fact that in the global industrial chain, China is located in the middle and high-end, and ASEAN is in the middle and low end, and the industries of the two sides are highly complementary and they are natural partners. At present, China is accelerating its industrial upgrading, and a large number of labor-intensive industries have been transferred to ASEAN. What is even more commendable is that the upstream and downstream of these industries are still in China, or have close ties with China, which binds China and ASEAN into a complete and internal circulation huge economic system (RCEP), which effectively guarantees the anti-risk ability of both economies.
And for China, this huge economic system has a deeper meaning. We know that in the final analysis, the strength of a country depends on scientific and technological progress. And with each industrial revolution, more and more people are needed to build a complete industrial system. For example, the first industrial revolution in Britain only needed a few million people, the second industrial revolution in Germany and the United States needed tens of millions of people, and the third industrial revolution started in the United States, which required hundreds of millions of people. First, the categories of industry are becoming more and more complex, and second, only large-scale market demand can effectively stimulate scientific and technological innovation and the transformation of achievements, and the profits from the transformation of achievements can be invested in scientific and technological innovation again, thus creating a virtuous circle. Therefore, population size is very important for industrialization.
Therefore, the outbreak of the fourth industrial revolution should obviously be an economy with a huge population, perhaps even reaching the level of billions. Although the Chinese population is as high as 1.4 billion, it is not necessarily enough, so we must integrate other countries to form a larger economy. The United States is only more than 300 million, and the manpower gap is even greater, so after withdrawing from the TPP, seeing that China has joined the RCEP, the United States has the cheekiness to return to the CPTPP.
At this time, the geographical defects of the United States were exposed: the United States is isolated in the Western Hemisphere, too far away from the world's most densely populated world island of Eurasia and Africa, and the cost of integrating the countries here is too high, especially integrating Southeast Asia, and it cannot compete with China at all. In the same way, the cost of China's integration of Latin America on the other side of the world is also higher than that of the United States, and Latin America has always been the backyard of the United States.
Therefore, as we said earlier, where China's power can be projected, China's economic system can be integrated, we must first near and then far, first easy and then difficult. If the distance is beyond the borders of our power, we must cooperate with other friendly countries, such as wrestling with the United States in the Middle East, we need to persuade Saudi Arabia and Iran, and to expel Britain and France in Africa, we need to borrow the power of Russia. Only when our forces are strong enough can we truly integrate the entire Asian, African and Latin American economies into a giant economic system and completely overthrow all the irrational old order.
In September 1935, when the Central Red Army was about to arrive in northern Shaanxi after completing the last leg of the Long March, the great man climbed high and overlooked the majestic Kunlun Mountains and issued a slogan: "Ande draws the sword from the sky and cuts you into three sections? The world is peaceful, and the world is hot and cold". At that time, the world was on the verge of a major war, and our party had just kept the flame of revolution alive, but what the great man thought about the most was still how to completely transform the old world and realize the liberation of all mankind. It is precisely because of the great man's farsightedness and vertical and horizontal game that China, which is poor and white, can have one of the three parts of the world in just half a century. Today's China is facing great changes unseen in a century, but it also has a family background that is 100 times stronger than that of the past, and we should rely on the sky to hold the sword and cut all the unreasonable old order.