January 2, 2021

Washington made an outcry riddled with a sour grapes mentality toward the completion of negotiations on the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment. US Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger blasted the EU for reaching the deal with China despite the latter's so-called human rights record. The EU has "removed a fig leaf," Pottinger said. White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro also called it "a bad deal," which will pose a geopolitical challenge to the US. A conservative US scholar asked angrily: How can the Europeans take China's side, not the US?

Strategic selfishness and arrogance seem to have burned the brains of some American political elites. They think the geopolitical interests of the US are identical to those of Europe. So when they mess things up in terms of China-related issues, they believe it goes without saying that Europeans should follow suit. They believe the ideological bond between Europe and the US is strong enough to make the EU abandon huge interests of doing business with China, but act as the political admirer of the US government, wholeheartedly. 

On December 30, the day China and the EU made public the completion of negotiations, the US government announced to impose additional tariffs on European products including aircraft-related parts and wines from France and Germany. 

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