Empiezan a gotear las críticas serias y contundentes ante la actitud soberbia del canciller alemán Gerhard Schröder en el tema del embargo a China. Hoy Spiegel-Online publica un durísimo artículo en el que desnuda la verdadera intención del canciller, así como algunos de los entresijos y vericuetos por los que se mueve la política internacional alemana en los últimos meses. De interés para nosotros pues, nos guste o no, nuestro presidente ha comprado varios tiques de ida y ninguno de vuelta para el cruzero por la historia que organizan Chirac y Schröder.
Perfecto Claus Christian Malzahn, autor del escrito, al reconocer y denunciar el transfondo anti-americanista y populista del señor Schröder.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder never counted among the politicians who put the issue of human rights at the center of their political ethics. Back in the 1980s, when the erstwhile opposition leader of the state of Lower Saxony peered over the East German border, he didn’t perceive a regime that used guns, spies and barbed wire to deprive its subjects of the kind of the political freedom that was taken for granted by people in the West. For many in the left-wing of the Social Democrats at the time, East Germany was considered an irreversible result of World War II, something you just had to accept.
[…]By chumming up to the regime with his vocal, go-it-alone attitude, Schroeder is further complicating this situation. These activists have long been able to rely on the west to exert pressure on Beijing, but by cozying up to the Communist Party leaders, Schroeder is further reducing the already sparse negotiating leeway available to China’s remaining human rights activists. His offensive dedication to Beijing, which he is peddling here as European economic policy, will have further consequences.
[…]Where, exactly, German foreign policy is supposed to be headed — in view of its tacking between Moscow, Paris and Beijing — is anybody’s guess. Does the chancellor even know? After all, he seems more inclined to take out stock options on the future with his brothers-in-arms in China than to focus on solid contemporary politics. But one thing has become certain: Damaging the trans-Atlantic relationship has become a favorite diplomatic staple of the current German government.
[…]Not too long ago, the German journalist Arnulf Baring demanded: «People: To the barricades!» In light of the blatant announcements by the chancellor, that he neither needs Washington nor his own parliament for his China policies, it is high time to repeat that command.
Completo en Spiegel-Online.
