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19 February 2025
While Trump’s approach to Europe is reckless, turning to China is not the solution. Doing so would play into Beijing’s strategy of weakening US-EU cohesion and ignoring Europe’s own security interests.
Former Slovak Minister and Presidential candidate Ivan Korčok’s call for greater EU cooperation with China in response to Donald Trump’s policies, made in an interview with Aktuality.sk, is misguided and risks further undermining already fragile transatlantic relations.
While the current Trump administration has weakened Western cohesion, this knee-jerk reaction calling for cooperation with China directly serves Beijing’s interests.
China’s long-term foreign policy goal is to undermine transatlantic relations and create a multipolar world order in which the US and the EU cannot present a united front against shared challenges posed by China.