German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and a group of German business leaders visited China on Friday. Because China is Germany’s largest trading partner, the event might be viewed as unremarkable in some respects, but the war in Ukraine surely played a role. The question is, How?
Solid German business sources completely contradict the “message” delivered by the German Council on Foreign Relations on the trip to China.
According to these sources, the Scholz caravan went to Beijing to essentially lay down the preparatory steps for working out a peace deal with Russia, with China as privileged messenger.
This is – literally – as explosive, geopolitically and geoeconomically, as it gets. As I pointed out in one of my previous columns, Berlin and Moscow were keeping a secret communication back channel – via business interlocutors – right to the minute the usual suspects, in desperation, decided to blow up the Nord Streams.
Cue to the now notorious SMS from Liz Truss’s iPhone to Little Tony Blinken, one minute after the explosions: “It’s done.”
There’s more: the Scholz caravan may be trying to start a long and convoluted process of eventually replacing the US with China as a key ally. One should never forget that the top BRI trade/connectivity terminal in the EU is Germany (the Ruhr valley).
According to one of the sources, “if this effort is successful, then Germany, China and Russia can ally themselves together and drive the US out of Europe.”
Another source provided the cherry on the cake: “Olaf Scholz is being accompanied on this trip by German industrialists who actually control Germany and are not going to sit back watching themselves being destroyed.”
It is perhaps hard to imagine, but is there any reason Germany, China and Russia shouldn’t ally themselves?
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Any outlet that deliberately circulates Russian lies is not to be trusted on ANYTHING. In this case, these dopes (to be generous) gleefully spread the Russian LIE that Britain sabotaged the Nord pipeline acting on orders from the United States.
https://tinyurl.com/56hdv7t3
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Sad,
reduced to ad hominem and personal insults.
What is really ludicrous is the claim Russia destroyed the pipelines when all they had to do was turn off the valves.
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“Sad, reduced to ad hominem and personal insults.”
Boo Hoo.
You can take people spreading anti-American Russian lies seriously if you want, I will not. If you cannot trust the “facts” that someone puts forward to support their ideas, what is the point of paying them any attention? My answer – there is no point.
BTW, I did not claim that Russia organized the pipeline sabotage so that is one of your straw men. I tend to stay away from stating as facts things I know nothing about.
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RE: “If you cannot trust the ‘facts’ that someone puts forward to support their ideas, what is the point of paying them any attention?”
In this case, the “facts” to which you object are immaterial. Your objection is therefore superficial.
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They already had. Then the sabotage, by whomever, would make it a long time coming before the gas could flow again.
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RE: “Any outlet that deliberately circulates Russian lies is not to be trusted on ANYTHING.”
Who cares? The substantive issue the post highlights is independent of the source: Is there any reason Germany, China and Russia shouldn’t ally themselves?
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“Who cares?”
I do. I do not trust LIARS or put any weight on their opinions.
“Is there any reason Germany, China and Russia shouldn’t ally themselves?”
Well, for one thing, Russia is a puny loser of a country that would add nothing to the security of either of these potential partners. With that said, the idea that Germany would now ally itself with Russia is ludicrous on its face.
As for Germany’s biggest trading partner being China, it is worth noting that China is also OUR biggest trading partner and our trade is far greater than Germany’s. And either of us does far more trade with China than does Russia. It is also worth noting that as the biggest foreign holder of U.S. bonds it is not in China’s interest to tip over the apple cart.
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RE: “Russia is a puny loser of a country that would add nothing to the security of either of these potential partners.”
I think you are being shortsighted. Germany is Europe’s largest economy, and it is facing deindustrialization as the result of the war in Ukraine. Its clear interests might be well served by severing some of its ties to NATO and the European Union.
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“I think you are being shortsighted. ”
Fine. That is your opinion.
Your eagerness for some sort of new world order that excludes a role for the United States is clouding your thinking about all of this. Why you are eager for that is another question.
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Extremely shortsighted.
Germany is a large economy but has relatively little remaining natural resources. Russia has vast untapped resources but needs a steady market for them and help in making effective use of them. There is a partnership there to be employed .
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“There is a partnership there to be employed .”
Certainly true. Where you people go wrong is in thinking that Germany must kowtow to a fascist dictator to have such a partnership. It seems that Germany and the rest of Europe understands there is a better way – pressuring Russia to moving away from aggressive, militaristic Fascism and towards liberal democracy.
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