Original Source: Global Times
The Chinese edition of the Global Times is administered by the flagship People’s Daily, and is known for its hawkish and nationalist views. Although it is directly owned and operated by the CCP, it is not considered as authoritative as the People’s Daily.
A scholar from Tongji University argues that while Europe is increasingly emphasizing systemic rivalry with China, there is still “potential for deepening high-level cooperation” because many of China’s policy priorities (including ensuring food security, improving supply chain resilience and security, achieving self-reliance in science and technology, and boosting innovative capabilities) “share a common language” with those of the European Union. As a result, she argues that Europe should jettison what she refers to as its “Cold War mentality” and achieve “ideological independence,” so that China and the EU can work collectively to “inject more certainty, security, and development momentum into the world.”
An analysis in the reliably nationalist Global Times by a senior political scientist from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences argues that American democracy is being subsumed by dysfunctionality and internal chaos.