{"id":223558,"date":"2022-11-14T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=223558"},"modified":"2022-11-10T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:34:56","slug":"germany-is-the-chancellor-betraying-the-us-emperor-the-new-germany-china-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/11\/germany-is-the-chancellor-betraying-the-us-emperor-the-new-germany-china-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Is the Chancellor Betraying the US Emperor? The New Germany-China \u201cConnection\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>9 Nov 2022 &#8211; <em>Before both, Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, and unelected President of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, two Germans, were chosen to economically destroy Europe, beginning with Germany, they were indeed vetted for months by the neoliberal hegemons in Washington and the Pentagon \/ NATO.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_223559\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/olaf-xi-germany-china-400x267-1.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223559\" class=\"size-full wp-image-223559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/olaf-xi-germany-china-400x267-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/olaf-xi-germany-china-400x267-1.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/olaf-xi-germany-china-400x267-1-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-223559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, and Xi Jinping, President of China<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When eventually they \u201cqualified\u201d, they enhanced the media lie-machine, betraying and lying to the people in Europe about energy shortages, food shortages, astronomical inflation \u2013 and fear-mongering about the multiple disastrous consequences of these calamities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">They imposed stern energy savings program under threat of severe punishment, including fines and imprisonment. This, despite the fact that German gas tanks are full to about 94 %, the most they have ever been in the last 5 years. The energy situation in other EU countries is similar \u2013 it would appear, not at all disastrous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Yet, the dumbfounded European public went along \u2013 with fear and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">But the German industrialists did not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">They didn\u2019t and still don\u2019t agree with the German \u2013 and by association, the European industry-destruction, also called deindustrialization policy. They had in the past already heavily lobbied with Madame Merkel, making semi-secret deals with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">German industrialists know that the divide-and-conquer policy is being imposed by Washington \u2013 to reach eventually a unipolar world, which is only possible with a fractured Europe, not with a \u201cUnited Europe\u201d. The US GDP is estimated to reach in 2022 about US$ 20 trillion, as compared to a fast-catching-up European GDP of some US$ 17 trillion (2022 est.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">German business leaders didn\u2019t go along with official German economic policy. Destroying their country economically is going too far. Knowing that Europe in the long-run needs Russia and with an even longer vision, also China, German industrialists made semi-clandestine pacts with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">German Chancellor Scholz\u2019s one-day visit to Beijing, meeting with <strong>President Xi Jinping,<\/strong> consisted of a large delegation \u2013 several dozen representatives of German key businesses and industries. To the <i>delight<\/i> of Washington, Scholz told the world: <i>\u201cThe world needs China.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">It\u2019s now European economic leaders who call the shots; Olaf Scholz has little choice. The WEF, Washington and Brussels appear to be sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Germany, the people, is very much interested in becoming part of the Xi-Initiative, the Belt and Road. The 25% concession in the port of Hamburg to the Chinese company, <i>Cosco<\/i>, was a first step \u2013 a sign that Germany was ready to sign up to the New Silk Road, the same as did Italy and Greece with Piraeus, already years before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">The original proposal was a Chinese participation of about 35% to 40%. Political pressure from Brussels and from within Germany reduced the Chinese share to 25%. The reduction is unimportant. What counts is Germany\u2019s \u201centry\u201d into the BRI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Washington, Brussels and NATO may not like it. But what can they do, if the EU-lead country, Germany, decides to resist the planned collapse?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\"><b>Europe Signs US$ 17 billion Trade Deal with China <\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">In agreement with France and other EU countries, Olaf Scholz entered into a Trade Deal with China for the equivalent of about US$ 17 billion. See\u00a0video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Europe signs 17 billion orders with China\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XnC-WUJU7ug\" width=\"690\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Finally, prompted by German industrialists, Europe may see the US for what it is. Officials in the Biden Administration are attempting to raise issues about the Sino-German trade, claiming that China wants to separate Europe from the US. Talks about \u201csanctions\u201d are already emerging. But sanctioning Europe and China\u00a0\u2014\u00a0where would it leave the US? Alone and isolated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Therefore, Washington is thinking twice before applying their usual <i>weapon of mass destruction<\/i>, sanctioning \u201cmisbehaving\u201d partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Chancellor Scholz apparently made it clear that the visit to China is the right decision. Washington, NATO and Brussels won\u2019t be able to decouple Germany from China. No way should the United States be able to intervene and interfere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">At the same time, preceding the Scholz visit to Beijing, Germans revealed fears for financial survival in a recent poll (RT, 7 Nov 2022).<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Half of the respondents are afraid, they might not have enough money to financially<i>\u00a0<\/i>survive\u00a0the coming winter, according to the <i>BILD journal<\/i> of last Sunday (6 November). Most people believe the government\u2019s relief measures to alleviate the industrial fallout of the ongoing energy crunch are not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">According to the INSA polling agency (Institute for New Social Answers<em>)<\/em>, only about a third of respondents believe that government measures will help them get by. Another third admitted they would not be able to afford any Christmas presents for their loved ones this season. They also believe that Scholz is not up to the task facing him in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Chancellor Scholz\u2019s approval rating is with 25% the lowest of any German Chancellor duirng the past 50 years. His trip to China may improve his popularity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">This negative reaction was triggered by fear that Germany may not be able to handle the announced \u201cenergy crisis\u201d. This is clearly a fear reaction by people unaware of the hoax behind the crisis; not knowing that Germany\u2019s, like most European countries\u2019 energy reserves, are at their highest for years, and before Chancellor Scholz\u2019s trip to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Their fear was also driven by inflation and the ever-increasing cost of energy, combined with worries about a potentially\u00a0<i>\u201cchilling winter\u201d<\/i>\u00a0across Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Will the revelation of the new German-China connection ease the tension?<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8513265156ydp6389dbd1yiv9599683746MsoNormal\">Time will tell. Of special importance will also be the response of other EU countries. Will they return to sovereign nation states \u2013 moving away from the imposed globalist concept?<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Peter-Koenig-e1559733673126.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-134998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Peter-Koenig-e1559733673126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a> Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist who worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America and writes regularly for online journals. Koenig is the author of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Implosion-Economic-Environmental-Destruction-Corporate\/dp\/059545349X\" >Implosion \u2013 An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed,<\/a><em> fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe; co-author of Cynthia McKinney\u2019s book, <\/em>When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis <em>(Clarity Press \u2013 1 Nov 2020)<\/em>; <em>and a co-author of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/World-Order-Revolution-Essays-Resistance\/dp\/6027005874\" >The World Order and Revolution! \u2013 Essays from the Resistance<\/a><em>. He is\u00a0a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization and a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/germany-chancellor-betraying-us-emperor\/5798455\" >Go to Original &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Nov 2022 &#8211; Before Olaf Scholz and Ursula von der Leyen, two Germans, were chosen to economically destroy Europe, they were indeed vetted for months by the neoliberal hegemons in Washington and the Pentagon\/NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":134998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[244,1268,739,1126,1050,2200],"class_list":["post-223558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-china","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}