BEIJING (Reuters) -China considers Germany and the European Union as a whole as strategic partners, and it wants stronger cooperation with them in the spirit of free trade and multilateralism, the Chinese foreign minister told the German chancellor on Saturday. Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Chancellor Olaf Scholz China was willing to deepen "all-round cooperation" with Germany as part of positive bilateral efforts to maintain global peace and stability. Wang was in Germany, the EU's biggest econ
That’s one aspect. The other aspect which i was thinking of is how despite the tough anti-Russia rhetoric coming out of Poland, Poland has so far consistently refused the idea of sending troops to Ukraine whenever the UK and France have floated this proposal. This tells me that they at least have enough self-preservation instinct in Poland to recognize that, unlike the British and the French, they will be on the frontline of a NATO war against Russia and they know they will not enjoy being on the receiving end of Russian missiles.
Poland also seems more willing to immediately bend the knee to the new US administration, unlike the Germans, French and British who still delude themselves into thinking that they are important or that the Europeans have any real power in their relationship with the US.