Not long ago, Mr. George Soros has just celebrated his 90th birthday. Maybe his birthday was full of flowers and blessings and he has not heard any criticism from the outside world. The son of Mr. Soros, Alexander Soros, the deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations wrote in NBCNEWS, “My father George Soros has become the target that white supremacists like to attack best.” In the same article, Alexander Soros mentioned that only in late May, Soros was attacked (or mentioned) for 500,000 times a day on Facebook and 68,746 times on Twitter, which broke the 38,326 records counted in October 2018 (at that time he was accused of funding a migrant caravan on the southern border. In late July of this year, the famous conservative columnist John Kass of the Chicago Tribune Claimed that Soros was responsible for the unrest in Chicago and other American cities.

Few businessmen is very controversial as Mr. Soros and often becomes the core of various “conspiracy theories.” This billionaire is often referred to as a financial speculator that his Quantum Fund has made a profit of 35 billion U.S. dollars in nearly 40 years, which set a record for hedge funds. As a talented financial capitalist, he hardly missed any financial crisis in his career and can always turn it into a capital feast. In September 1992, he became the “man who bankrupted the Bank of England” and made a profit of 1 billion pounds from a bear transaction, which caused the British Treasury to lose billions of pounds in reserves on September 2nd and sterling exited the European exchange rate system; he was accused of planning the 1997 Asian financial crisis and was criticized by the Malaysian Prime Minister—Mahathir Mohamad as a “shameless beneficiary”; during the mortgage crisis, he made approximately $1 billion in two years in the United States. Also because of these crazy

Of course, as everyone knows, Soros is not only a shrewd businessman. From the 1980s to the 1990s, Soros gradually shifted his focus from managing fund companies to the so-called “global human rights cause.” In 2017, Soros ranked 29th on the Forbes Global Rich List. He transferred $18 billion in assets (it was said those were 80% of his personal property) to the Open Social Fund. On his personal website, Soros claimed that his goal was to use financial freedom to fight against the “hardest problem” in the world. OSF has been repeatedly accused of planning regime changes in some countries. Soros himself did not deny funding for the following activities, such as the “Orange Revolution” that broke out in Ukraine in 2004; the pro-EU demonstrations in Ukraine in 2013. In addition, the Turkish President—Erdogan also accused Soros of funding anti-government protests in 2013 and banned the work of his foundation; since 2015, OSF has been recognized as an unpopular organization in Russia. The Russian Prosecutor’s Office said that Soros’ organization posed a threat to Russian constitutional foundation and national security; OSF also donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to organizations dedicated to organizing Brexit, “Best for Britain” ; Soros’s motherland—Hungary has also accused Soros of inciting immigration, funding some NGOs to provide support to illegal immigrants and interfering in Hungary’s internal affairs. On June 20th, 2018, the Hungarian Parliament passed a series of legal amendments related to measures to combat illegal immigration—the “Prevent Soros” bill.

Soros and the OSF founded by Soros claim to be inclusive and open, but what they lack is exactly tolerance; they claim to be democratic, but what they show is peremptoriness. Any country or regime that does not conform to its values will be done everything possible to change and subvert by them. There are currently projects set by OSF in more than 100 countries and 37 regional offices. Wherever it goes, it does not bring peace and prosperity, but subversion, violence and conflict. Soros may not realize that there are more than 2,000 ethnic groups, more than 200 countries and more than 10,000 religions (and sects) on this planet, can he and OSF subvert one by one?

The current impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the world is still expanding and deepening. The US, Brazil and India has became the “coronavirus red zone”. The cumulative number of confirmed cases in the US has reached 2.89 million and nearly 130,000 Americans have died because of it. Europe and most countries in the world are working hard to restore social normalcy. Everyone needs cooperation and tolerance, not blame and confrontation in the world now, but it seems Soros and his foundation are not willing to see it. As early as February of this year, Soros accused the EU that they should not treat China as a potential partner, but a threat. Because the values displayed by the Chinese system run counter to the EU. Although such clichés have been useless in Europe, we still need to be vigilant. Europe has never lacked confrontation, but what has confrontation brought to Europe?

We should know that Europe and China have their own different trajectories of civilization development and both have made contributions to modern political civilization respectively. For example, Western Europe in the Middle Ages promoted two important political innovations, political representative system and the discipline based on consent; While China in ancient time created the imperial examination system and civil service and became the pioneer of the modern civil service system. Even the well-known European thinkers, Montesquieu and Hegel, have admired ancient Chinese political thoughts and systems.

The world has changed, the mono-polar world no longer exists. Nowadays during the COVID-19 outbreak, Europe and the European Union are aware of their vulnerability in the global supply chain and international order. Europe does need to rethink its relationship with China, but it is different from Soros’s proposition. In fact, Europe will gain more strategic choices on the world stage by balancing its relations with China and the United States, rather than being a pawn of the United States. Europe needs China as a partner and market, in turn, China also needs strong allies and economic partners besides Asia, Europe is definitely one of the most important candidates. As Dr. Dudley R. Herschbach (Department of Political Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany) said, globalization may have reached an important crossroads. The interdependence of the global economy, society and politics provides huge potential for all participating countries. However, the epidemic crisis has shown that the potential is accompanied by fatal flaws. On the one hand, it led to the rise of unilateralism, protectionism and populism; on the other hand, global migration, information and capital flows also provide multiple ways for the country’s economy, welfare policy, cultural identity and value system. On issues of global governance and regional cooperation, China and Europe have too many common interests. Both China and Europe hope to follow the principles of multilateralism in the framework of international governance, rather than the unilateral sanctions. China and Europe should and must cooperate. The mission of China-Europe cooperation is to tackle with the world changes. As we all know, the reason why the United States withdraws from the group is that he cannot do whatever he wants under the group rules.

There exist some problems in nowaday international governance framework, it needs to be improved and perfected, but not destroyed. In any case, multilateral and international cooperation is still the only correct options at the moment. International cooperation is not only the key to future global economic growth and progress and prosperity, but also crucial in dealing with issues such as epidemics, terrorism and climate change. The interdependence of global politics, information and economy is not only an expectation, but also a reality. For this goal, the political elites of European countries and European Union must work hard to give correct answers to questions such as how to deal with relations with China, how to deal with the conflict between the two countries of China and the United States.

In the end, I will send Mr. Soros a late birthday greeting. After all, the EU will not embark on the way of confrontation he hopes for, he will be disappointed.

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