By Mehmet Enes Beşer The European Union is at a crossroads geopolitically. As Washington and Beijing move closer, Europe is being increasingly pushed to remain in sync with a less-than-self-guided strategic agenda. Transatlantic unity is essential, but the EU’s China policy has become increasingly derivative—more reflective of what Washington desires than a hard-headed accounting of European interests. This passive outsourcing ...
By Orçun Göktürk, PhD Candidate at UIBE in Beijing / China French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China coincided with a period of rising China–Japan tensions and a short-lived “ceasefire” in China–US relations following the Busan talks. It also unfolded in an atmosphere where both Beijing’s strategy of “flexible diplomacy” toward Europe and Europe’s squeezed position between Washington and ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan French President Emmanuel Macron has advocated in various statements at different times for the creation of an independent European pole that is distant from the US, opposed to Russia and cooperating with China. To understand and evaluate Macron’s statements, it is useful to put the pieces back together, which were displaced with the Ukraine War. First, ...