Dutch Premier Pokes China While Praising ‘Century of America’
Mark Rutte at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Jan. 17.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte poured cold water on China’s rise and sided squarely with the US in an op-ed that highlighted the deteriorating ties between Europe and Beijing.
“I cannot see how this will be China’s century,” Rutte said in the article for Dutch newspaper NRC published late Monday. “The 21st century will be the century of democracy and thus the century of America.”