LATEST: “The United States and China are two systems that tend to converge and hybridize”
Global Update:
The following report highlights an important international development currently attracting worldwide attention.
Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing has sparked a flood of comments in Europe (including France) that are as predictable as they are disappointing. As is often the case with Sino-American relations, the European view oscillates between fascination and concern, as if the balance of power between Washington and Beijing was being played out on a world stage in which the European Union was merely a decorative element. Deeply rooted, this posture is both paralyzing and perilous, for Europe and beyond, because it obscures the global effects of the weakening of a singular political model based on the bet of power through peace and freedom. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers Donald Trump received in China with pomp and a severe warning Read later The major risk for Europe is not so much the confrontation between the United States and China as the emergence of an order in which these two powers would end up accommodating each other and organizing the world according to a logic of imperial consultation. In such a scenario, Europe would be relegated to the status of a normative periphery: relatively prosperous, regulatory, but politically marginalized. However, nothing mechanically condemns the European Union to this role. It remains an essential market and space for both the United States and China. Furthermore, it continues to embody, in the eyes of a large part of the world, a unique socio-political model, based on peace, the rule of law, public freedoms and the social state. A model that is neither confused with Chinese state capitalism nor with American capitalism, both Darwinian and messianic. Read also | Meeting in Yerevan, Europe and Canada stand together against Trump Read later Thus, what structures the relationship between Washington and Beijing today is less an ideological clash between two radically opposed models than a power competition between two systems which tend, on several key dimensions, to converge. The rivalry remains, but it is increasingly part of a logic of hybridization and crossed influences. During the 20th century, China studied and then adapted the main instruments of American power: the military-industrial complex, world-class universities, venture capital, innovation ecosystems, and massive funding of strategic research and technologies. The strategy undertaken by Deng Xiaoping, following the official recognition of the People’s Republic of China by the United States in 1979, was based precisely on this selective appropriation of the levers of American power, in a logic of catching up and increasing capacity. You have 59.77% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Analysts believe this development may influence future diplomatic, political, or economic discussions internationally.
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Source: This article was originally published by International : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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