“The Americans are totally involved in the war in Ukraine, but they have their heads in China…” This confidence of a European personality in regular contact with the United States on the subject of Ukraine draws our attention to a huge discrepancy in perceptions: in Europe, our eyes are fixed on Ukraine and Russia, whereas On the other side of the Atlantic, we only talk about the ball and the “Chinese threat”.
This is obviously much more than anecdotal: it is one of the keys to the evolution of the war in Ukraine, but, above all, an indication of what the “world after” will be like, the day this war ends. will stop – because it will stop one day, one way or another. She recalls that America’s priority has not changed: since Barack Obama’s “pivot” towards Asia, the beginning of the latent confrontation under Donald Trump, taken up and amplified by Joe Biden, Washington is obsessed with the Chinese emergence.
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