The transatlantic alliance should make it clear that it is ready to face the ever-closer combination of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. It’s essential that Germany becomes a reliable ally again.

China’s military threat against Taiwan represents a direct threat to Germany’s and Europe’s security. A new China strategy needs to take this into account.

“Surrounded by friends,” self-imposed dependencies, “change through trade”: Germany has to leave behind these fallacies and help create an alliance of states to jointly work to safeguard an international order in which right trumps might.