Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, effusively praised the U.S. and downplayed China’s rise in an opinion piece published late on Monday, as the European country aligns itself more closely with Washington in areas like defense and semiconductors.
“I cannot see how this will be China’s century,” wrote Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, in NRC, a Dutch newspaper. “The 21st century will be the century of democracy and thus the century of America,” he wrote.
