A garden can’t survive in the jungle

If the West is not united it will be unable to compete with China. That much is clear. And if we include Australia and Japan in the "West," there is no doubt that their strategic cooperation with the United States is deepening and becoming increasingly necessary. Those two countries are, after all, located in the East and are facing a huge China with constantly increasing geopolitical ambitions.

However, the question is what will happen with Europe. The statements made by French President Emmanuel Macron on his way back from Beijing highlighted the issue, as well as the European dilemma. The French president spoke, once again, on the need for European strategic autonomy in relation to the United States and questioned whether the EU should follow the US in a tough cold war. Because the French are loose with their use of language. Even concerning completely tangible subjects,...