Neither German nor European foreign policy seems prepared to apply the principle of reciprocity in international relations. But that is precisely the colonial expectation of the West that is currently being continued in relations with China.
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My latest guest article in Berliner Zeitung on German-Chinese relations, now at Geopolitical Economy via :
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Berlin and Brussels have, however, made themselves useful pawns of the White House’s economic war strategy against China. The dark clouds of the consequences of this policy are already gathering in the European sky.
Neither German nor European foreign policy seems prepared to apply the principle of reciprocity in international relations. But that is precisely the colonial expectation of the West that is currently being continued in relations with China.
It is the expectation that one’s own measures against another country will not be answered, because that country dares not rebel against the rules established by the West. But that is precisely the stance someone like Helmut Schmidt [first German chancellor who has visited China in 1975] always pointed out, and which the rapid development of China completely ignores.
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Wadephul’s unconditional will to challenge Beijing is certainly laughed at there, in the way one understands a dog’s bark as expression of its master. But at the same time – and here Mr Wadephul should not let himself be misled by his advisers – China is a country that is ready to accept a challenge.
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Thus 50 years of German-Chinese relations threaten to come to an end, and an unprecedented self-destruction of our country is set in motion, against which the consequences of the sanctions policy against Russia were only a light foretaste.
China is a centre of the multipolar world order. This insight is urgently needed. A German foreign policy that acts in the interest of the desperate maintenance of the USA’s doomed unipolar world order is destined to fail. In the interest of the German population however lies being in good relations with this centre.
Read the full commentary here:
geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/10/26/ger

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