The geopolitics of vaccines: the Anglosphere is running while the EU remains at stake
While the European Union proceeds with lawsuits against the United Kingdom, accusing London of having violated the Brexit agreements, the United States faces Southeast Asia with new maneuvers of vaccine diplomacy.
By 2022, approximately one billion doses of the Covid vaccine will be produced in India – with US-Japan financial support – and subsequently distributed together with Australia throughout Southeast Asia.
A maneuver evidently aimed at countering competition from China and Russia. Equally evident who is the great absentee: the European Union. Totally out of the game, he deludes himself that he can play a "third" game by pursuing his dreams of strategic autonomy.
With outcomes that risk turning out to be catastrophic. The Anglosphere accelerates towards Asia, China tries to break the encirclement by hitting Australia and attracting the European Union towards it. In serious delay with the vaccination plan (only 10 per cent of the population immunized), and in the throes of a sort of post-Brexit bereavement "anglophobia", the EU is far from a full economic recovery and therefore particularly exposed to Chinese influence.
In these months of pandemic, it has shown that it exists essentially as an object of other people's policies and as a nostalgic project.
Harold James, professor of European economic history at Princeton University, explained that "the West has passed over everything", remaining anchored to a box of "isms" that illustrate his ideological baggage: from modernism to genscherism, passing through fascism , totalitarianism, Keynesianism and Stalinism.
Europeans speak in the present, they do not plan the future, they speak exclusively with the past. And while Beijing, Moscow and Washington continue to give life to a heated economic and technological conflict, fought with sanctions, alliances and tariffs, Europe seems to have nothing more relevant to express.
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