2023-06-25 08:30:00
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CHRONIC. Between diplomatic efforts and sulphurous declarations, the current Sino-American relationship is complex to analyze. It will, however, determine the balance of the world to come.
By Gérard Araud Anthony Blinken’s recent visit to China foreshadowed an improvement in relations between Beijing and Washington. Nothing will have happened. © GREG BAKER / AFP Published on 06/25/2023 at 08:30
The nature of the relations that the United States and China manage to establish will determine the balance of the world for decades to come, as those between the former and the USSR did from 1945 until the collapse of the bloc. Communist. As the African proverb says: “When two elephants clash, it is the grass that suffers. The terms of the confrontation between the two great powers will partly depend on our own fate.
This reminder comes up against the European dream of a humanity reconciled around international law in the clearly understood interest of all the States of the planet. Reason would have it, in particular, that two countries which otherwise maintain intense economic relations should continue to indulge in the innocent and remunerative pleasures of trade instead…
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