Europe’s double bind

The global competition between China and the US puts pressure on Europe’s regional order.

Covid-19 has made a mockery of the world’s great powers. US President Donald Trump promised to ‘make America great again’, but his administration’s handling of the pandemic has been anything but great. Chinese President Xi Jinping has often spoken of a ‘Chinese dream’, yet his own response to the crisis has relied on algorithmic authoritarianism. And Europeans who often pay lip service to multilateralism have