Baerbock hypes 'China threat' again, revealing bias of pro-US politicians | Aug. 23, 2023 |

As China-Australia relations are witnessing a thaw, Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has once again hyped up the cliché of "China threat" in a virtual address to an Australian think tank. What is her intention? Baerbock told the Lowy Institute on Tuesday that China was challenging the "very fundamentals of how we live together in this world," and she praised Australia for serving as a "role model" for resisting Chinese "economic coercion."

In addition to being a representative figure of the German Greens, Baerbock is also a pro-American politician who holds hostile views on China. Baerbock's remarks in Australia actually expressed both her personal opinion and the US' attitude. However, this time, Baerbock went beyond the relationship between China and Germany, but put the Australian issue in the context of the ideological confrontation between the West and China.

It is not surprising that Baerbock has proposed a tough stance on China, which aligns with her consistent position of viewing China as a threat and emphasizing the differences in ideology and social systems between China and Western countries. At the same time, the German foreign minister seemingly tries to speak boldly in defending Australia by discrediting China, using the so-called "economic coercion" narrative, which was originally a rhetorical trap hyped by the US.