Is Europe (not) helping the US in its battle for Asia?
... negotiated end to the crisis, changed tack, announcing joint naval exercises with China and plans to sell S-400 surface-to-air missiles to China (the authors must have failed to properly monitor the situation: the deal to supply an S-400 complex to China was signed back in April 2015). The European Union issued a condemnation of Chinese and Japanese recalcitrance in roughly equal measure. Moreover, Europeans did not back the US in its endeavor to increase its military presence in the crisis area. NATO held consultations to determine whether the cyber attack would justify the invocation of its collective-defense obligations, but came to no firm conclusions. The simulation comes to an end here. <р3>Europe’s not eager to go into action ...