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The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Before President Trump, the United States and Europe attitudes and policies towards China were more or less the same.
Since then, the United States has changed, but not the Europeans, in regards to their attitudes and policies towards China.
The last article reads like those movie scenes where someone is standing on a rug, and someone pulls that away.
Seems that the United States had deluded themselves that the Europeans were most definitely on the same side when it came to China, when the Europeans were most definitely were not.
European attitudes towards China, were always ambivalent. That has not changed.
What has changed are the Americans, who are no longer ambivalent in regards to China, but hostile.
Americans say to Europe, we need more hostility for China!
China say to Europe, let's do more deals!
The United States got to be real careful here. They could soon quickly find themselves on the wrong side history, if they are not already.