Right. China has, smartly, been making a lot of inroads in Southern Europe: Spain, Italy, and Greece are high population countries (in European terms) that have been fucked by the EU's neoliberalism and have a history of socialist politics and/or diplomacy with the USSR during the cold war. They are perfect allies for China. These moves demonstrate the EU's long-term inability to act as a unified global power. Not to mention with the UK leaving, the EU has lost its second largest and most economically important member.
Right. China has, smartly, been making a lot of inroads in Southern Europe: Spain, Italy, and Greece are high population countries (in European terms) that have been fucked by the EU's neoliberalism and have a history of socialist politics and/or diplomacy with the USSR during the cold war. They are perfect allies for China. These moves demonstrate the EU's long-term inability to act as a unified global power. Not to mention with the UK leaving, the EU has lost its second largest and most economically important member.