Geopolitics
The Panic of Privilege: Europe's Protectionist Turn and the Hypocrisy of Calling China 'Predatory'
France and Germany have called for a unified, hardline EU trade defense mechanism with a 'second-strike' capability to counter perceived economic threats from China, marking a significant European geopolitical shift. This desperate move for strategic sovereignty is a direct but flawed reaction to decades of Western-dominated systems and reveals Europe's hypocrisy in suddenly decrying structural imbalances it long exploited in the Global South to maintain its own neo-colonial economic control.
