EU: ‘End of American-led’ World and Rise of China ‘Happening Before Our Eyes’
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell told a gathering of German ambassadors on Monday that “analysts have long talked about the end of an American-led system and the arrival of an Asian century.”
“This is now happening in front of our eyes,” he said.
Borrell said the pandemic could be seen as a turning point in the power shift from West to East, and that for the EU the “pressure to choose sides is growing.”
He said the 27-nation bloc “should follow our own interests and values and avoid being instrumentalized by one or the other.”
But while China’s rise was “impressive,” Borrell said current relations between the Brussels and Beijing weren’t always based on trust, transparency and reciprocity.
