A senior Chinese diplomat has demanded that Germany support its “peaceful” conquest of Taiwan.
Such a probing demand comes at a time of European soul-searching over the issue of Taiwan, with a growing number of EU-based officials pushing for a much more cynical approach to be taken on the issue.
Leading the charge was French President Emmanuel Macron, who openly expressed concern that European involvement in any future conflict over Taiwan would only risk the continent becoming an American ““Being an ally does not mean being a vassal… doesn’t mean that we don’t have the right to think for ourselves,” he said, urging for the continent to stay out of any Taiwan quagmire due to it so far being unable to solve the war already taking place in Ukraine.
This sentiment provoked outrage amongst more Atlanticist-minded politicians in Europe and America, some of whom accused the French President of a “The notion was pushed back upon by the German Foreign Minister, who said in Beijing: “A military escalation in the Taiwan Strait, through which 50 percent of world trade flows every day, would be a horror scenario for the entire world.”
“The shock wave of such a world economic crisis would also hit China and Germany as special trading nations. We are therefore watching the increasing tensions in the Taiwan Strait with great concern,” Baerbock , adding: “A unilateral and violent change in the status quo would not be acceptable to us as Europeans.”
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