America is much more of a 'malign imperialist' than China.

The Daily Telegraph is not worth reading on Ukraine and the Middle East but not so bad on the EU.

 
Sherelle Jacobs's article headlined

It has finally dawned on Strasbourg’s blob that the European dream is dead

is interesting. 

The effect of the Greenland crisis and Mr Trump's Davos speech have throw the EU into the air, which must be a good thing. 

At the European Parliament she reports 

"Many view Trump as the new enemy. Several I spoke to compared the implosion of US-EU relations to the bloc’s broken relationship with China – as if these two malignant imperialists are in the same category. With Trump having merely paused tariffs rather than taking them off the table, hawks called for the EU to get on a long war footing."

I am a great admirer of the imperialism of the late 19th century, at least British imperialism, but America is much more of a malign imperialist than China. Which countries has China invaded?

Vietnam in 1979 and that's about all - and that one month conflict was in retaliation for Soviet ally Vietnam invading Cambodia. Britain was on the side of Pol Pot and China in that one.

Meanwhile the USA has carried out about a hundred regime changes, not to mention failed regime changes like the one last week in Iran. America invaded Panama, bombed Serbia, invaded Iraq, Syria and ... I forget the others. 

America helped organise revolutions in Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, with what consequences we see. If they succeed in Iran that may make Iran a failed state, which is what Israel wants.

America has bequeathed the Ukrainian war to the EU and UK who would be sensible to bring it to an end fast on Russia's terms.

Actually another malign imperialist is the European Union itself, utterly undemocratic and corrupt, taking power from elected governments and proclaiming its first priority as being to restrict freedom of speech in member states.

Empires need not be malign , of course. They can be good. Helen Szamuely said Austria Hungary was a European Union that worked.