The 21-country survey for the influential European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) thinktank also found that under Trump, the US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies – particularly in Europe – feel ever more distant.
The poll, of nearly 26,000 respondents in 13 European countries, the US, China, India, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa and South Korea, found majorities in almost every territory surveyed expected China’s global influence to grow over the next decade.
And who is going to care?
Did the EU care about Venezuela? No, only when they threaten Greenland.
Why would they rock the boat for Taiwan?
America might once have cared to defend Taiwan, because the whole tech economy is powered by their chips. But the U.S. is so diminished, overextended, and chaotic that China clearly recognizes an opening.
I think Xi makes a move within the next two years.
Furthermore, Xi seeing that you can wreck foreign countries without consequences or accountability, he won’t think twice about international law when he feels to invade Taiwan.
EU doesn’t care that much about Greenland, either.