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For sober leaders in Tianjin, the handshake between Xi Jinping, Putin, and Modric was a sign that the war in Ukraine will not be stopped by President Trump's initiative, that US sanctions against India will not distance it from Russia and China (i.e. BRICS), and that these are new realities.
I am not sure if I understand exactly the meaning of the word “Chineseness” used in Albania. Sometimes it seems to me that the word stems from the first contacts of Albanian citizens with the Chinese, during the Enver-Mao political love affair, when they heard their language “Chineseness” became synonymous with not being understood. “Chineseness” would thus have the same usage in Albanian as “it's all Greek to me” in English or “Das kommt mir Spanisch vor” in German, so speaking Chinese to an Albanian is like speaking Greek to an American or Spanish to a German - an unintelligible or incomprehensible speech.
Then it also seems to me that it is used to describe the phenomenon of cheap and not very high-quality Chinese products, perhaps even copies of Western-designed products. "Chinese" back then would have been synonymous with something worthless or of dubious value.
I have been thinking about this term over the past two days as I watched two meetings held on opposite sides of the world titled or described as strategic. In one, the opening panel of the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia discussed the enlargement of the EU with new candidates from the Western Balkans. In the other, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization discussed the expansion of a new world order that will bypass the US and perhaps even the so-called collective West.
And, I am absolutely certain that the word "Chineseness", as far as I can understand, cannot describe the rally held in China, in Tianjin.
On the same day that in Bled, for the twentieth year in a row, the need for the EU to expand with new members from the Western Balkans was discussed, in Tianjin, the need to expand a new development credit system with the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) bank was discussed, for which China has immediately made more than a billion dollars available.
On the same day that in Bled, candidates for membership swear that they want membership or entertain the public to show that by being members they will make the EU more fun, and the leaders of the member states honestly show that there is no enthusiasm for new members, in Tianjin the issue of membership is not even put on the agenda - let whoever wants to come, the door is open.
On the same day, the Croatian prime minister breaks the atmosphere of the barcolets by saying: "you have North Macedonia blocked, you have Serbia under more than two years of the biggest, strongest and most serious internal unrest and demonstrations, on the verge of civil war. Bosnia and Herzegovina with Dodik dragging it out for years whether to separate or not, in the hope that it will go away. This is where we are today with Banjska, which was left without a serious remark or articulation in 2023 by anyone in the European Union, we pretended it didn't happen. These are the realities of where we are".
On the same day, Indian Prime Minister Modi arrived in Tianjin and shook hands with host Xi Ji Ping, even though the two countries had exchanged military attacks on their disputed border, and India and Pakistan had exchanged artillery fire this year, and Pakistan had bombed India with aircraft purchased from China. Also present on the same day were the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia, countries that had exchanged fire on their border line a few weeks earlier.
On the same day that Bled was discussing for the twentieth year in a row how the European Union should have a geopolitical role, and this was even discussed in a panel on the Western Balkans where EU policy can only show that it has been successful if it freely uses the literary creativity of magical realism, the leaders of the ten founding countries, the two observer countries and the 13 partner countries - countries representing over half of the world's population - were present in Tianjin.
And, on the same day that Bled was discussing how the war in Ukraine has caused the EU to take the integration of the Western Balkan states (along with Ukraine and Moldova) into the EU more seriously, Tianjin was making decisions as a result of a new world order emerging from the war in Ukraine. For a sober leader in Bled, the logical question is how can Ukraine and Moldova be integrated into the EU while being a hotbed of Russian military activity?
For sober leaders in Tianjin, the handshake between Xi Jinping, Putin, and Modric was a sign that the war in Ukraine will not be stopped by President Trump's initiative, that US sanctions against India will not distance it from Russia and China (i.e. BRICS), and that these are new realities.
Over the twenty years of the Bled Strategic Forum and the debate on how the EU should play a geopolitical role, China has invested in strategic areas that make it a global power. China today builds half of the world's commercial ships, produces 80 percent of the world's solar panels, 60 percent of electric cars, and so on...
In Bled, it was announced that at the next Forum, perhaps two cheerful countries of the Western Balkans will be closer to the EU. In Tianjin, the warning about the next step was kept hidden: the introduction of the Chinese currency, whether conventional or electronic, into a payment system within the SCO or BRICS that would be a competition for the US dollar.
This would be the next logical step in the dismantling of the current international system built on the initiative of the US from 1945 to the present. This action is more frightening for the US - which has based its role as a superpower also on relying on the dollar as a global exchange currency - than any of the conventional wars that could be waged. In two rallies, within one day, the term "Chineseness" could be adopted by Europeans for themselves.
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