Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Reuters
Business Insider: Europe is abandoning Trump on the world stage as it turns away from the US toward China
* Recent polling suggests Europeans are turning away from the US under President Donald Trump's leadership.
* Public opinion toward America has declined in major European countries since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
* Seventy-six percent of Germans in a new poll said their view of America had deteriorated because of the crisis.
* Roughly equal numbers of Germans in the poll favored maintaining close relationships with China and the US in a head-to-head matchup.
* One poll last week found that just 2% of French people trusted Trump to provide world leadership.
* China is exerting growing political, diplomatic, and financial power across Europe.
President Donald Trump is presiding over the deterioration of the US's position on the world stage as European countries increasingly look toward China as a future global leader.
This shift is apparent in a series of recent opinion polls that found European sentiment toward the US to be in decline since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
New polling published in Germany this week found that an overwhelming majority of Germans said they had a worse opinion of the US because of the pandemic.
The survey found that 76% of Germans said their view of the US had deteriorated because of the pandemic, compared with 36% who said the same of China.
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WNU Editor: If Europe thinks that embracing China is their future .... they are going to be in for a big and unpleasant surprise.
12 comments:
Trump can only be in power for so long...
Just wait until the next administration without Trump and see how the US changes their tune towards China.
Also, Europe is not embracing China. Far from it.
IB has a long record of partisanship against Trump. European news outlets, some I read, are near universal in their contempt for Trump. Given the choice of printing a straight new story or putting a bad spin on Trump they take the later course every time. So no wonder mass opinion is anti American and Trump. I wonder how much Chinese investment funds are in major European media?
Anywho shedding fair weather friends is a blessing, not a problem for the USA. Besides the USA only needs Norway,Greenland, Iceland and England to secure the North Atlantic. The rest of the EU countries are more burden than assets.
With allied like that, we don't need enemy. I'm not that surprised, Europe was liking USA only for being protected from USSR. Now European are rejecting us as if we was Kleenex.
Could you see Kohl treating Trump like the way Merkel does?
Merkel, the SPD, The Greens. They are the real problem.
Relax everyone, they only dislike Trump, not America.
After all, the kids are still listening to American music, watching American films, wearing American clothes etc...that's not going to change any time soon.
Also, remember how Europeans fell over themselves four years ago when Obama was doing his goodbye tour? They loved America then and they'll love America in the future.
It's just that Trump is so easy to hate or say you hate - he's an easy, popular target.
Finally, let me remind you that back in 2004 George Bush was extremely hated by everyone - hell, even I owned a t-shirt slagging him off (it was for a band called Good Riddance).
Everything changes and nothing changes.
There is more intense anti Chinese feelings in my part of merry old England than for the USA. Keep ducking 🤧👍
Being European, I think our leaders - especially Merkel - have been compromised. I'm sure China /Russia have something on her. She did everything but get on her knees and blow Putin over the last few years, from the oil deal to degrading the military, weakening the EU with her failed immigration policy and on and on. That's what happens if you have weak leadership. And also I wouldn't trust the poll too much. Something is going on here and it's resembling 2016. Every European better voice their opinion now before she completely ruins us all
OCRUMBOGATE.
OCRUMBOGATE.
ASSHOLGATE
"our leaders - especially Merkel - have been compromised. I'm sure China /Russia have something on her. She did everything but get on her knees and blow Putin over the last few years"
Behind closed doors Putin would have accepted the degradation, but look at her.
Neither one might have morals, but Putin does have standards.
Any European leader siding with China is committing high treason and we should not wait for the next election to voice our disapproval.
We should hold our leaders PUBLICLY accountable the coming days to clearly state on which side they are. Any and all"leaders" opposing our will are to be treated as traitors with all consequences associated
the answer: YES
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