"For China, the US was, is, and remains adversary number one,"
"One of its long-term strategic goals is to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, which makes Trump's move towards Europe really inexplicable if you think he's actually interested in taking on China. The idea that Trump is tough on China or sees China as the main rival doesn't really cohere with the Trump administration's policies."
"I think it sees Ireland as a potentially friendly voice in the European Union,"
"China likes that Ireland is not in Nato and is militarily neutral. China has a real deep distrust and dislike for Nato."
China regards the United States as its primary adversary and pursues long-term strategies to weaken US–Europe ties. Chinese strategy includes courting neutral European states such as Ireland to act as friendly voices within the EU. Ireland's non-membership in NATO and military neutrality appeal to China given its deep distrust of NATO. The apparent outreach from Trump toward Europe undermines the coherence of a policy that claims to prioritize confrontation with China. Irish motivations include economic interests, and political scrutiny focuses on responses to the US invasion of Venezuela and to China's human rights record.
Read at Irish Independent
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