Apparently Xi has studied well the jurist and political scientist Carl Schmitt's theory of friend-enemy and is treasuring it by adapting it to international politicsThe Chinese leader, the best of all those assembled in Tianjin, has patiently constructed a sketch of the "existential external enemy" that legitimizes the force of politics : it is called the West, that is, it would be all of us including those who are breaking away from the West like Trumpian Americans. Against this "enemy" Xi has created the world's largest coalition ever in terms of numbers : China, India and Indonesia alone total more than 3 billion people. And now he is ready to go on the offensive on the level of world prestige , economic and geopolitical influence, permanently undermining the United States and its allies.
Recall that the "enemy" for China is that same West that gave Beijing entry into international trade in 2001 without which China would still be a poor country.
How does the West respond? By misidentifying the enemy.
For Trump the enemy -in talk- remains China. But in deeds the slaps with the tariff policy he has given to his friends, first of all Europe and then also that India that was waiting from the US for the opposite signal to cool relations with the Brics and China and proudly become a leader in Asia but not in the function of America's subject.MAGA grand strategists have narrow brains and continue to think that their enemies are the Democratic Party mayors of Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, cities where they send the National Guard as if they were similar to Medellin. Enemies are the most prestigious private universities whose funding they take away. Treated as enemies are the European Union allies from whom they bleed money with unmotivated tariffs and the NATO partners forced to bleed themselves to feed the U.S. war industry.And let's throw in poor Ukraine la which will no longer receive a dollar from the U.S. but will have to give up part of its raw materials to it.
Instead for Trump friend is Putin who has been humiliating and teasing him for 7 months by sending back ultimatums and threats that have been followed by only strokes, applause and red carpets from the White House.If you misidentify the enemy you are ruined. The West led by this America in a state of confusion is ruined, finished.If the U.S. does not change Trump's mind by explaining to him that only an iron axis usa Europe can counter China-led expansionism, the European Union will have to wake up in order not to end up in the meat grinder of the coalition of dictatorships-India aside.It will have to develop its own foreign policy independent of the U.S., starting with trade agreements and working its way up to political ones by playing on all world chessboards.The current leaders of European countries do not seem to understand the gravity of the historical moment and think with national if not outright nationalist logic. It is up to us citizens to raise our voices and make it clear that the leadership of the West is in the hands of Europe and that Europe must dismantle the Chinese rhetoric that sees us as enemies.
We are no one's enemy. But we do not accept that others think of using us for their expansionist aims both geopolitical and commercial.
We need a new European renaissance arising from the peoples of Europe to prevent the world from heading toward a new confrontation
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