{"id":140962,"date":"2020-01-16T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/trump-is-not-the-cause-of-cooling-eu-us-ties-says-merkel\/"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:10:40","slug":"trump-is-not-the-cause-of-cooling-eu-us-ties-says-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/trump-is-not-the-cause-of-cooling-eu-us-ties-says-merkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is not the cause of cooling EU-US ties, says Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cooling relationship between the U.S. and Germany is not down to Donald Trump but has deeper roots, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether her own lack of rapport with the U.S. president was the source of the rift, Merkel told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a6785028-35f1-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3cba4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a>: \u201cI think it has structural causes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheres been a shift,\u201d Merkel explained, and former U.S. President Barack Obama \u201calready spoke about the Asian century, as seen from the U.S. perspective. This also means that Europe is no longer, so to say, at the center of world events \u2026 The United States focus on Europe is declining \u2014 that will be the case under any president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in comments that are unlikely to bridge the divide with Washington, Merkel hinted again that Germany could allow Chinese tech giant Huawei into its 5G telecoms network.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel acknowledged that Germany should tighten its security requirements for telecoms providers and ensure it relies on a diverse field of suppliers \u201cso that we never make ourselves dependent on one firm,\u201d but added: \u201cI think it is wrong to simply exclude someone <em>per se<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-defies-us-on-huawei\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The U.S. has signaled<\/a> that Huaweis involvement in the German network could have serious implications for future intelligence-sharing between Berlin and Washington, and Merkel has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/german-mps-huawei-5g-network-germany-angela-merkel\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">faced pressure from MPs<\/a> from her own center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who want the chancellor to block Huawei over national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to how Europe and the world should deal with Beijing, Merkel said she would \u201cadvise against regarding China as a threat simply becau<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/trump-is-not-the-cause-of-cooling-eu-us-ties-says-merkel\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cooling relationship between the U.S. and Germany is not..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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