Recently, many major events have occurred in the international community, after the United States fought 20 years of war in Afghanistan but suddenly announced the withdrawal of troops from the United States, followed by a suicide bombing attack in kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The United States has supported the Afghan Ghani government for 20 years, and it is gone.
Then we saw a series of events: the Taliban armed groups attacked all the way to the occupation of Kabul, the afghan capital, and the establishment of a new regime.
It also sounded a wake-up call for America's European allies: The United States doesn't seem to be as strong as they think, and Biden doesn't seem to be as reliable as they think. Even britain ignores the US sanctions policy against China all along and hopes that our country will invest in Britain!
All along, the United States has attracted a large number of fans because of its strong strength. The United States has also personally supported the Afghan Government of Ghani, in direct opposition to the local Taliban armed groups in Afghanistan. The United States has been sending troops to Afghanistan for 20 years, claiming to be fighting terrorists, and it took 20 years without a result.
Although the losses of the Taliban armed groups were not small, relying on the advantages of terrain and the mass base, the US military found that the Taliban actually fought more and more.
In the end, due to various reasons, the United States did not want to fight for Afghanistan, which had few resources but had spent a lot of military expenses, so it decided to withdraw its troops this year after 20 years of troops. If that's all there is to it, it's just that America's strength is being questioned by other countries.
But just after the withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Taliban militant group took kabul, the afghan capital, and the former Afghan president fled. The United States now has no extra effort to take care of this file, and can't help but make the United States' allies and other countries question the strength and reliability of the United States.
Because today the United States can abandon the Afghan government it supports, tomorrow it may abandon them at the expense of other allies. On August 26, another vicious incident occurred. There have been two suicide terrorist attacks at an airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Hundreds of deaths have been confirmed. The White House also announced on the same day that it would lower its flags to half-mast in mourning. Yet the United States and its allies are now busy evacuating from here, unable to fight terrorists.
This series of events has caused the United States to encounter an unprecedented "crisis of trust" problem. U.S. hegemony has also gradually declined in these events, and it seems that it no longer has the glory of the past. The United States is now losing far more than the Afghan government they have sustained for 20 years, and we can even assert that the era of American global domination is over.
Looking back, Biden frequently shouted after taking office: The United States is back! As a result, the United States did not return, but the Taliban returned! On August 25, former US President Trump sent a video attacking the Biden administration. Trump claimed: Biden promised the American people that America would be stronger. He told us 'America is back'. However, he withdrew his army. Under Biden's leadership, it was the Taliban who came back, not the United States.
European allies expressed dissatisfaction with the U.S. government when Trump was in power, thinking that now that the new president Bide has taken office, the president of the United States who seems to be more reliable than Trump will lead them back to glory. But no one thought that the European allies had not yet shown their fists, and the Biden administration suddenly announced that Afghanistan, which had been fighting for 20 years, would not fight and withdraw its troops! This really made NATO allies flash their backs.
Not only that, the two explosive terrorist attacks that occurred at the airport in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on the 26th, made the United States and its allies feel "blind". European allies are angry at the inaction of the United States, expressing great dissatisfaction with the withdrawal of American troops, and the doubts about the United States are deepening day by day. Therefore, some people have declared that Afghanistan should become a lesson for Europe, and Europeans must develop the ability to be independent militarily and politically.
This sentence speaks to the hearts of European countries, and now the United States is giving people an increasingly unreliable impression. European countries can only make themselves strong as soon as possible and rely on themselves to ensure their own interests. Since the United States is so untrustworthy, when European countries make decisions on many important matters in the future, I am afraid that they will act according to their own ideas instead of looking at the face of the United States.
Europe has always been a pivotal presence in the world's economies. However, due to the lack of stamina at the speed of development, it is necessary to vigorously develop economic trade with China and the United States in order to develop. If the United States had not launched economic sanctions against our country, Europe could have done business with our country and the United States at the same time, and Europe also had this strength.
However, because the United States has been engaged in trade wars with china and frequently sanctions our country, it will not promise the European allies of the United States to benefit our country.
European countries had no choice but to survive in the cracks. But having to take sides is very difficult to choose. Today's China has become a superpower in the development of these decades, and the business with European countries is also getting bigger and bigger, whether it is investment cooperation or import and export trade, the two countries are not willing to give up.
Especially during the epidemic, only our country has resumed work and production, and its production capacity has far exceeded that of those countries that are deeply troubled by the epidemic. In this way, offending our country is even more troublesome for yourself. Today, China has become the largest trading partner of European countries.
But the United States is also the largest investor in Europe. Fish and bear paws cannot be combined, and weighing the pros and cons between the two makes it very difficult for Europe. Europeans are not willing to give up China, an unprecedented market, but they do not dare to offend the big brother of the United States. So there is a spectacle: Europe, along with the United States, frequently opposes China on "values", but at the same time wants to do business with China.
There was no fundamental conflict of interest between European countries and our country, but it was only because of the existence of the United States that Europe could not oppose us. It is precisely because of this that trade cooperation between China and the EU will be hindered. The EU now urgently needs to restore economic development, but the once-drafted China-EU bilateral investment treaty has not been able to play its original effect. In other words, the United States has led Europe to impose sanctions on china, which has interfered with the "big business" between Europe and China.
A few days ago, a British reporter said: Biden bowed to the Taliban, which put Europe in trouble. The article also said that "britain needs to be wary of US President Joe Biden, it is best to set its sights on China and Russia, and it is time for the West to repair diplomatic relations with China and Russia."
It can be seen from this that a series of decisions made by the Biden administration have indeed disappointed European allies. The great strength of China and Russia has also impressed Europe and begun to rethink the relationship between the West and our countries.
If Europe no longer listens to Biden's instigation and does not always care about the face of the United States, then European trade with China will usher in a new chapter. At the very least, Europe can work out some practical measures for its own interests to better cooperate with us and promote common development. Up to now, the rift between Europe and the United States has been expanding, and the relations between Europe and China are constantly repairing the old good.
Then the day when investment and trade can return to normalcy is no longer far away.
Europe has begun to make frequent overtures to our country in an attempt to write a new chapter in trade with our country. At this time, the British looked in the eyes and could not wait. Although the relationship between China and the UK is still tense, our country is not panicked, because we do not lack partners in the world. Once Britain is abandoned by China and there is no longer any relevant cooperation and investment, then it is even more distant for Britain to regain its former economic and political status.
Britain also clearly understands the stakes. Therefore, without waiting for the EU to intervene, the Uk took the lead in releasing the investment of our enterprises in the UK. Because the UK knows that it is better to start first, if other countries seize the opportunity or our country finds other partners, the UK will only be in a more passive position.
We look back at last year, the United Kingdom also banned the Chinese company Huawei from participating in the construction of 5G in the United Kingdom. In addition, the United Kingdom has also restricted the participation of china's nuclear power companies in British energy projects. British Secretary of State for Investment Jerry Greenstone declared on August 26: The Uk is not taking the road of trade protectionism, and the UK is very welcome to invest in China, as long as the investment is beneficial to the UK!
Jerry Greenstone claimed that the UK is the hottest investment location in the world, but the National Security and Investment Act will always protect the UK's national interests. Even though the UK did some prohibitions and restrictions on trade with china last year, it still wants our country to invest in the UK. As long as "investing is good for the UK, we absolutely welcome it." ”
The bill, which goes into force early next year, covers 17 sensitive areas. These include advanced materials, artificial intelligence, communications, data infrastructure, quantum technology, satellite and space technology. The bill also states that if we want to let a lot of foreign investment in, we have a responsibility to put in place a system to ensure that foreign investment is good for the UK.
Greenstone also emphasized that "it is a more effective system, not interventionism." Sir Greenstone, 71 years old today, is a member of the House of Lords of the British Parliament. He himself has frequent exchanges with our country, and he even has a Chinese named Qin Zhitao!
He was also involved in the "privatization" reforms of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was chairman of Barclays Bank and chairman of Standard Life. In March last year, Sir Greenstone was appointed Secretary of State for Investment in the UK government. In this role, he heads the Department of International Trade and the Department of Commerce, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Because last year, in order to follow the pace of the United States, the United Kingdom had to ban China's Huawei equipment, and restricted the participation of Chinese enterprises in Britain's energy projects. Therefore, it has led to a great reduction in the investment of Chinese enterprises in the UK, which is obviously not conducive to the recovery and further development of the BRITISH economy.
However, we also have a very clear understanding: Britain's behavior of hindering its own economic development is fundamentally the result of frequent SANCTIONS imposed by the United States on our country. Britain chose to oppose our country only at the instigation of the United States.
Now the United States has withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban armed groups have seized power and come to power. There were two more terrorist attacks at Kabul airport, but the United States did not face up to these problems and take measures. European countries and britain have seen that the United States is unreliable, so Europe now does not care about the United States' views when it makes some decisions.
Under such circumstances, the early restoration of trade relations with China has become the primary issue for European governments. And the United Kingdom is even more eager to restore the economy, and it cannot but go ahead of the EU to formulate a cooperation strategy with our country.
The reason is that, on the one hand, a series of operations by the United States have exhausted the trust of the United Kingdom, on the other hand, today's China is not the China of the past, whether it is the level of economic development or investment ability, it is not below the United States, and even the United States is now declining, but not as strong as China's economic strength.
At the same time, our country has a good alliance with Russia, a superpower, which is even more attractive to European countries that urgently need to develop their economies. China and Russia are the two major powers in the world today, who can cooperate with our country, is to find an unlimited market for their own economic development, this transaction is stable and profitable, it is no wonder that Britain is so anxious.