For at least 10 years, the European Union has shared more values with China than with the US. The Biden administration has tried to bring the US closer to the values of the European Commission and the Chinese Communist Party, but we have seen how that ended. The Americans flatly rejected it...
This is the direction the EU is already heading. Let's not forget, last year the European Commission put a lot of pressure on Google to introduce so-called "fact checkers" on its search engine and YouTube, so that the EC could control speech on their platforms. If Trump had not won the US election, they would probably have gotten it, because no company wants to pay fines in the amount of several billion euros, as Apple recently had to do.
Let's also remember that the European Commission has been "investigating" Musk's social network X for over a year now because he refused to implement censorship as they wanted.
Now tell me, how far is that from what China is doing? American social networks are banned in China. The Chinese use their social media, where political censorship is active non-stop, in much the same way that Factograf was active on Facebook during the journalistic flu pandemic.
Let's be realistic, EU bureaucrats see a role model in the Communist Party of China and everything they have done recently is in that direction. America did not abandon Europe, the opposite happened. European elites abandoned America long ago, alienating themselves from both their own citizens and Western values. China is a completely logical partner for them...
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