The Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic has disrupted people’s lives around the world, and now a variant of the virus has emerged, causing anxiety. The growing anti-China sentiment around the world has also caused many countries that used to be quite pro-China to re-examine their relations with China, thus restructuring the international order.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has always been considered a pro-China representative in the EU, as China has been Germany’s largest trading partner for four consecutive years, with a bilateral trade volume of €206 billion, and 7 million of the 28 million cars imported by China in 2018 came from Germany, so it could be argued that if China were to unilaterally suspend trade with Germany today, the German economy would almost collapse.
But Germany’s attitude has quietly turned after the epidemic ravaged Europe, first the domestic anti-China voices continue, the German government also began to take action against China, on December 5, the German government vetoed the acquisition of the German company IMST by China Aerospace Science and Industry Group on the grounds of “endangering national security”.
Not only that, Germany and old comrades Japan also reconnected, 15 Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, and German Defense Minister Kramp for online talks, talks in which Japan invited Germany to participate in the 2021 U.S.-Japan joint military exercises, Germany did not refuse, and most likely to participate, scholarly analysis, even if Germany did not participate in the military exercises in the end, as long as the German warships appear in the Far East, it is equivalent to declare that Germany will return to the Asian stage after more than 100 years of withdrawal from Asia, and this time to choose to stand with the United States, Japan, India, Australia.
The reason behind the reorganization of the international order caused by the epidemic is that China has been concealing the epidemic from the very beginning, and its brutal and domineering style has led to discontent in the international community.
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