Reply #5 twfun's post
I think EU wouldn't have problem to ally with China instead of the US. Many have speculated that China is going to surpass the US on the world stage as the global leader. However, China does have a lot to achieve and more issues to address economically and socially. Sending Chinese students to study abroad is a brilliant strategy to improve China in multiple levels. The rest of the world can experience what mainland Chinese is like in person to debunk many of the urban legends while China can gain educated professionals without investing on their education system initially. Of course, they would have to eventually and they have. They have also been recruiting top talents to fill up their university's faculty.
EU can see that China has no real intention to take over the world nor interfere world affair like the US has in the last decade. Some may even resent the US dragging them into the Middle East to fight the war on terrorism. Many also blame the US creating their own problems by meddling with other countries' government like Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Southern America, Philippines, Indonesia, and so on.
And Donald Trump isn't helping either. On the world stage, he has openly insulted pretty much all the allies EXCEPT Putin. Not once has he said anything relatively bad about Putin. He even called Kim Jung Un rocket man and imposed severe threat to the North Korea dictator. Trump has done nothing but making the US a laughing stock to the rest of the world. He is really enabling Putin's deflection tactic on his people. | |
