Europe-US: The Recovery

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January 2, 2021

Published in Le Télégramme
(France) on 16 December 2020
by Hubert Coudurier (link to original link to original)

Translated from by Mia Combeau. Edited by Jamye Sharp.

Hubert Coudurier offers his point of view on relations between the United States and Europe, which could improve after Joe Biden’s victory in the American presidential election.

Relatively discreetly in the face of Donald Trump's judicial guerrilla warfare, which ended in predictable failure, Joe Biden stepped in earlier this week to set the record straight. In noting that he obtained an equivalent number of Electoral College votes as his opponent did four years ago, and who, back then, described his victory as a landslide, Biden undermined the efforts of the real estate mogul who is intent on spoiling the transition.

In the process, the winner of the U.S. presidential election is said to have contacted the British prime minister to let him know that his populist leadership, appreciated by Trump, no longer suits America. And that he could no longer automatically count on the special bond between the United States and its former colonial authority to offer an alternative to the United Kingdom in the event of a "no deal" Brexit.

As the pandemic widens the gap not only between Europe and Asia, but between the United States and China, which was much less impacted by COVID-19, the new president could signal a renewed trans-Atlantic relationship. Trump was at odds with his Western allies, driving a wedge into the multilateralism embodied by the U.N., the World Health Organization and NATO.

Taking into account the evolution of the balance of power on a global geopolitical scale with a new cold war looming, this time between the United States and China, the future American president seems to want to recreate the link between America and the Old Continent. Because more than a military confrontation, it is an economic war that is developing with a race for new technologies.

Drained by COVID-19 (particularly France, Italy and Spain with their crashing economies), European growth awaits a recovery plan. Biden could be the catalyst.

Europe-USA : le regain

Hubert Coudurier nous livre son point de vue sur les relations entre les États-Unis et l’Europe qui pourraient s’améliorer après la victoire de Joe Biden à la présidentielle américaine. En début de semaine, Joe Biden, relativement discret jusqu’alors face à la guérilla judiciaire de Donald Trump qui s’est soldée par un échec prévisible, est intervenu pour mettre les choses au point. Rappelant qu’il avait obtenu l’équivalent en voix de son adversaire quatre ans plus tôt, lequel qualifiait alors sa victoire de raz de marée, Biden réduisait à néant les efforts du magnat de l’immobilier désireux de « pourrir » la transition. Dans la foulée, le vainqueur de la présidentielle US aurait joint le Premier ministre britannique pour lui signifier que son leadership populiste, apprécié par Trump, ne convenait plus à l’Amérique. Et qu’il ne pourrait compter automatiquement sur ce lien spécial entre les États-Unis et leur ancienne colonie pour offrir une alternative au Royaume-Uni en cas de « no deal ». Alors que la pandémie creuse l’écart entre l’Europe et l’Asie, mais aussi entre les États-Unis et la Chine, beaucoup moins impactée par le coronavirus, le nouveau chef de la Maison Blanche pourrait donner le signal d’un renouveau de la relation transatlantique. Donald Trump s’était brouillé avec ses alliés occidentaux, enfonçant un coin dans le multilatéralisme incarné aussi bien par l’Onu, l’OMS que par l’Otan. Tenant compte de l’évolution des rapports de force à l’échelle de la géopolitique mondiale, une nouvelle guerre froide pointant, cette fois, entre les États-Unis et la Chine, le futur président américain semble vouloir recréer du lien entre l’Amérique et le Vieux Continent. Car plus qu’un affrontement militaire, c’est une guerre économique qui s’annonce avec une course aux nouvelles technologies. Anémiée par le virus (particulièrement la France, l’Italie et l’Espagne en voie de déclassement), la croissance européenne est en attente du plan de relance. Biden pourrait en être le catalyseur.

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