International Affairs
How China Outsmarted Europe
Aleksandra Rybińska
“The United States should warm to the idea that in a world of interdependence there will be no economic decoupling with China,” states the German Transatlanticists Group at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in a report whose title expresses the need for more ambitious relations between Berlin and Washington. According to analysts, the deterioration of these relations throughout Donald Trump's presidency caused a “strategic crisis” in Germany. Without the US, there will be no Western alliance or stable and united Europe. The only hope lies in the new US President Joe Biden as well as the leadership and political will of the successor of Angela Merkel, as she leaves the political stage this fall. 28
The Warsaw Institute Review
