Se moramo zaradi ameriških fobij pred izgubo dominantnega geopolitičnega položaja tudi v Evropi izogibati gospodarskemu sodelovanju s KItajsko? Ne, to bi bilo skrajno neumno. Prav kitajske naložbe v Evropi omogočajo, da se vzpostavijo globalne proizvodne verige v “čistih tehnologijah” tudi z vključitvijo evropskih podjetij. Kitajska namreč v strahu pred vzpostavitvijo carin začenja pospešeno vlagati v Evropi v podjetja za proizvodnjo baterij in e-avtov, kar bo ustvarilo nova delovna mesta v Evropi (ki jih sicer ne bi bilo), hkrati pa omogočilo avropskim avtomobilskim proizvajalcem dostop do stroškovno ugodnih in zelo učinkovitih kitajskih baterij. To bo omogočilo preživetje evropskim avtomobilskim proizvajalcem, ki so pri e-avtih zaspali in so nekonkurenčni.

Zgledujmo se po Madžarski (glejte spodaj). Kdaj bo slovenska vlada odkupila obrat od Magne in ga nato ponudila kitajskim avtomobilskim podjetjem kot proizvodno lokacijo? Ali bomo spet bolj papeški od papeža?

Hungary’s FM Szijjártó also had a great answer when asked about his country’s relation with China, calling China “a huge chance and a huge opportunity” and revealing (which I didn’t know) that actually the key reason why the Chinese invest in Hungary is “because of the Germans”, i.e. to supply German companies that also have production facilities in Hungary.

This was also brilliant:

“Here again rationality is needed. We look at China, the cooperation with China as a chance, as an opportunity, as something that helps Hungary economy grow, as something that helps Hungarian economy to move to the next dimension, to be upgraded technologically speaking

And when I listen to those who say China is a threat, then I raise my question: don’t those countries have secret services or something? Because we have our secret services, we have our national security structure and if this structure signals any threat or danger to us regarding some action, then we don’t do that.

So what happens between us and China is absolutely, absolutely advantageous from the perspective of our national interest and national economy. What would not be in our national interest because of security reasons for example, then we would not do it. So I mean this is so simple from our perspective.”

I really wish this type of rationality was more generalized in Europe instead of the mind-numbing “good vs evil” ideology that’s so pervasive at the moment…

Vir: Arnaud Betrand