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Startling mirror images swirl around two major developments this week directly inbuilt in the Grand Narrative that shapes my latest book,
Eurasia v. NATOstan, recently published in the U.S.: Xi Jinping's visit to Paris and the inauguration of Vladimir Putin's new term in Moscow.
Inevitably, this is a contrasting tale of Sovereigns - the comprehensive Russia-China strategic partnership - and lackeys: the NATOstan/EU vassals.
Xi, the quintessential hermetic guest, is quite sharp at reading a table - and we're not talking about Gallic gastronomic finesse. The minute he sat at the Paris table he got the Big Picture. This was not a tete-a-tete with Le Petit Roi, Emmanuel Macron. This was a threesome because
Toxic Medusa Ursula von der Leyen, more appropriately defined as Pustula von der Lugen, had inserted herself in the plot.Nothing was lost in translation for Xi: this was graphic illustration that Le Petit Roi,
the leader of a third-rate former Western colonial power, enjoys zero "strategic autonomy". The decisions that matter come from the Kafkaesque Eurocracy of the European Commission (EC), led by his Nanny, the Medusa, and directly relayed by the Hegemon.
Le Petit Roi spent the whole of Xi's Gallic time babbling like an infant on Putin's "destabilizations" and trying to "engage China, which objectively enjoys sufficient levers to change Moscow's calculus in its war in Ukraine".
Obviously no pubescent adviser at the Elysee Palace - and there's quite a crowd - dared to break the news to Le Petit Roi about the strength, depth and reach of the Russia-China strategic partnership.
So it was up to his Nanny to volunteer out loud the fine print on the "Monsieur Xi comes to France" adventure.
Faithfully parroting Treasure Secretary Janet Yellen in her recent, disastrous Beijing incursion,
the Nanny directly threatened the superpowered hermetic guest: you are exceeding in "over-capacity", you are over-producing; and if you don't stop it, we will sanction you to death.So much for European "strategic autonomy". Moreover, it's idle to dwell on what can only be described as suicidal stupidity.
Comment: That's not great news for Europeans, such as those in the UK, whose leadership conspired with the US to blow up their gas lifeline, the Nord Stream pipeline. These same ailing nations aren't exactly endearing themselves to some of the world's most prolific shipbuilders, either, such as Russia and China.
That said, the issue might be moot anyway what with the US considering whether it might just cut energy-starved Europe off entirely: Biden's suspension of LNG exports challenged by 16 states