A fairly disunited world. This is how an impartial observer could have summed up the spectacle of the Munich Security Conference, which was held on February 15 and 16, 2020. Created in 1962 by Ewald von Kleist, a former German officer which was one of the few conspirators against Hitler of 1944 to have survived, this annual forum became the great world meeting for the strategic questions. Its interest is that freedom of expression remains sacred and that it is frequented by the greatest geopolitical actors on the planet.
This year, we saw the acrimony of the Sino-American rivalry go up a notch. The US Defense Secretary called the Chinese "thieves" (of technology). The Chinese foreign minister replied a little later, calling the Americans "liars." Until last year, the United States still expressed two similar strategic concerns, one about China and the other about
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