German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against creating a new Cold War by dividing the world into coalitions and called for every effort to be made to build new partnerships, in an opinion piece published online today by Foreign Affairs magazine.
The West must uphold democratic values and protect open societies, "but we must also avoid the temptation to once again divide the world into coalitions," Solts wrote in the article.
"This means that every effort must be made to build new partnerships, realistically and without ideological blinders," he added.
Scholz singled out China and Russia in particular as two countries that pose a threat in a multipolar world, which requires stronger European and transatlantic unity to prevail.
The transatlantic partnership remains vital to address challenges posed by the Russian threat of potential attacks on allied territory, while China's shift toward isolationism and its approach to the Taiwan issue require Europe and North America to forge new and stronger partnerships with countries around the world, he wrote.
"The Germans intend to become the guarantors of European security that our allies expect us to be, bridge-builders within the European Union and advocates of multilateral solutions to global problems," Scholz wrote."
Source: APM
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