Farewell to the ‘unipolar moment’: Europe scrambles for footing between US and China

SCMP · 2026-02-13
Farewell to the ‘unipolar moment’: Europe scrambles for footing between US and China

On the margins of a glitzy security event in Bavaria, the foreign ministers of France and Germany revived a dormant diplomatic format with China, in what was described as part of a larger effort to prevent the world’s superpowers from picking Europe apart. France’s Jean-Noel Barrot and Germany’s Joh