ER Editor: Here’s The Duran team’s Dec 30 take on the Nordstream 2 project, and Germany’s repositioning with China in view of the recent US presidential election (whose outcome is still not decided but Germany is clearly expecting a Biden win):
- Russia’s had enough of doing pipelines with the EU! Nordstream 2 will, however, be a gamechanger. The volume of gas will be enormous. Turkstream is also coming online.
- Germans have made it crystal clear that Nordstream 2 is going to be finished irrespective of what happens in the US. Most of the physical structures in Germany have been finished; the rest will be finished in 2 months and then gas will flow.
- The current German attitude in view of a Biden win is they’re getting very cocky, assuming that Biden will be easier to deal with. They’re now wanting to follow their own agenda! They’re confident over Brexit, and have accelerated work over Nordstream 2, promising to ignore any US sanctions. Most remarkable of all, they’re forging ahead with the massive trade and investment deal with China. It’s a thumbing of the American nose; and they’re going to go on working with Huawei.
- So Germans have interpreted a Biden win as a sign that they can do all the things they were doing when Obama was in power. Merkel’s govt is a full-on globalist one.
- So all roads will lead to — CHINA, providing Biden gets in. Biden’s just a WEF/Davos, Wall St. type of guy like Obama, as his recent speech indicated. Germany’s just embracing Beijing, with Merkel even offering to go to Beijing and negotiate directly with Xi Jinping. Cold War II has been called off. It’s all pretty remarkable.
- Germany benefitted enormously from trade with Russia, which ended in 2014 (ER: when the US coup was perpetrated under Obama on Ukraine). China is really the only one to benefit from trade with Germany. It’s nonsense to think that China will open up their markets to Germany. Germany will be very vulnerable to Chinese competition. Germans will not do well, neither will the EU, from this trade & investment deal. But the financial elites will do well. Globalism, full steam ahead!!!!
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Merkel gets EU-China deal done. Nord Stream 2 closer to completion
THE DURAN
The Duran Episode 841
Merkel gets EU-China deal done. Nord Stream 2 closer to completion
Merkel pushes EU-China investment deal over the finish line despite criticism
Leaders from Brussels and Beijing are scheduled to endorse investment agreement in videoconference on Wednesday.
See this Politico report from Dec 29: Merkel pushes EU-China investment deal over the finish line despite criticism.
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