¡°Why is it courageous and correct for German Foreign Minister Waldfuhr to cancel his trip to China? because his move demonstrates Germany¡¯s and even Europe¡¯s strict stance on the issue of China.¡±

Do you feel that the passage I repeated at the beginning sounded a little weird? It's right to feel this way, because I excerpted it from recent commentary articles in the German media.

In an interview with Reuters, Wadefuhr said that he was scheduled to visit China on October 26. This was his first visit to China since taking office as German Foreign Minister. Analysts generally believe that his trip to China was actually a pad for Murts' subsequent visit to China.

However, knowing that his visit to China was imminent, Wadfur didn't learn well, and still pointed fingers at Nexperia, rare earth control and even the Taiwan Strait issue, acting like a lofty teacher.

As a result of Wadfur's actions, his visit to China was ruined, and it was ruined at the last minute.

On why the German side suddenly ¡°brakes¡± at the last moment before Waldfur¡¯s arrival, at least two versions are currently circulating in the European public opinion.

A German official gave a ¡°technical delay.¡±

According to the initial explanation given by the German Foreign Ministry spokesperson, China has so far only confirmed that it has arranged a meeting between Wadfour and China Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

The German side believes that the agenda of just one foreign ministers' meeting is too thin to meet the German side's expectation of fully communicating with China on "core concerns" such as rare earths, semiconductors and free navigation.

The version attributes the issue to the lack of communication between the two countries, or the technical problems of the schedule, and stresses that Vader¡¯s visit to China is just ¡°delayed¡± and has not yet been cancelled.

The other is the ¡°principled cancellation¡± of German media explosions.

According to German media such as Der Spiegel and Die Zeit quoted "Berlin diplomatic circle sources", the real reason for Wadfur's cancellation of his visit to China was actually that before Wadfur's visit to China, China put forward an "unacceptable" prerequisite to the German side, that is, the German foreign minister was required to publicly "correct" his recent series of remarks criticizing China.

According to the German media, China's demands are nothing more than "open humiliation" of Germany, and are the usual tricks to pressure "a authoritarian state on which it considers a weaker partner."

If Wadfour accepts the conditions put forward by China, it will be equivalent to "succumbing to a strong gesture" and will turn Germany "into a requester waiting for an interview."

Therefore, Wadfur's cancellation of his visit naturally became a "brave" and "correct" decision, and it was a signal sent by Germany and even Europe to China. "Berlin does not want to be manipulated. Europe is by no means weak enough to raise a white flag (to China)."

No matter which version is closer to the truth, it is an indisputable fact that Wadfour failed on his first visit to China on behalf of Germany, which in itself was a major diplomatic failure.

However, the German politics and some of the media and yet cleverly applied the law of German barbarism to re-pack his diplomatic defeat successfully into the so-called "victory of principle".

The cancellation of action is covered up by the victory of speech, and this is the essence of the law of barbarism.

As for the phrase ¡°Europe has never been weak enough to raise a white flag¡±, which sounds tough, but in fact translates into an unspeakable anxiety and insecurity.

As a sign of surrender in the war, the German media directly compared China-Europe relations to a war that needs to be considered whether to "surrender", which itself reflects a deep-rooted zero-sum game mindset and a cold war confrontation mentality.

Compared to the collaborative win-win narrative that we have repeatedly emphasized, this tune of the German media appears to be tense and lack of security.

A truly strong person never needs to emphasize to others that he is "not weak". If a person, or a collective, needs to prove himself by shouting loudly, "Although we are weak, we will not fall", it often just shows that his own strength and situation have been shaken and doubted in his heart.

The German media's soft-word posture is actually more like a reassurance to Germans and Europeans, trying to build an illusion of superiority over China at the psychological level, so as to cover up Europe's growing anxiety in reality.

If showing weakness or compromise to the United States is a habit formed by Germany after World War II, then in the face of a latecomer who has been looked down on by Germany for a long time, even just showing an equal attitude towards China seems to have touched the fragile and sensitive historical pride of Germans.

More frankly, the Germans are not yet ready, or unwilling, to accept a China that is equal, and even in many areas has surpassed its own.

Not only in Germany, but also in Europe.

As a result, we have seen this inconsistent behavior pattern of Europeans: they are anxious in the economic field that is dependent on China and deeply powerless, but they have to be extra tough in the relatively safe political discourse field, so as to seek some kind of psychological compensation.

The reason why the German media packed Wadefur¡¯s trip to China into what was a ¡°courageous victory¡± was actually the outward expression of this mentality.

If Europe just can't let go of the Cold War knot of zero-sum game, that is, it is obsessed with fictitious victory in discourse, then China and Europe will not solve problems through dialogue, and even a peaceful and equal dialogue will be difficult to achieve.

Whether today's Europe is weak enough to raise a white flag? You Europeans don't need to defend yourself. Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts.

Moreover, besides, if the white flag does not exist, why do you need to emphasize that you do not want to raise it in Europe?