February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 54m
English
“Europe is caught between the claws of America’s eagle and China’s dragon,” Tomáš Sedláček, the Czech economist, philosopher, adviser to former President Václav Havel, and popular TV personality told me. He and I dialogued together in front of audiences at the Colours of Ostrava festival in 2018 and 2019. That statement summed up a concern I often hear as I travel through European countries: the entire region is torn in an existential clash between competing systems—its most powerful ally since World War II and its most important current trading partner.
There are basic differences between the two countries’ EHM strategies in Europe. Unlike other regions described in previous chapters, US EHMs have not relied extensively on debt or ...