EU considers reassessing its relationship with Beijing: “China has become an even stronger global competitor”

European Union (EU) should review its relationship with China fight it because “it has become an even stronger global competitor” with whom it remains “vital” to cooperate in areas such as climate change, according to a European External Action Service (EEAS) document.

“China become an even stronger global competitor Europe, USA and other like-minded partners. Therefore, it is important to assess how best to respond to current challenges and opportunities,” reads the document provided by the Financial Times and to which she had access. EFE.

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, presented the document to EU foreign ministers on Monday during a meeting they held in Luxembourg to hold the first discussion on how the G27 should respond to the “challenges” posed by Beijing.

The reflection that Europe begins the day after the opening of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China, “the consequences of which cannot be fully foreseen” but which “may increase the divergence between the political options and positions of China and our country.”

In this sense, the EEAS warns that the desire to strengthen ties shown on February 4 by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and the fact that Beijing is “buying” the Kremlin’s speech about the damage caused by European sanctions against Moscow, cause “this is a disturbing fact.”

and although China seems to have distanced itself from Russia’s goals in Ukraine” after Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons, “bilateral relations between China The US and Russia clearly represent a strong strategic partnership based on the support of each other’s core interests and cannot be ignored.”

“Reduce strategic vulnerabilities” against China

The document also warned that the EU “should prepare well for various possible developments in Taiwan and the Straits”, a question “which is already having a very detrimental effect on relations between Europe D China”.

“Any violent or forced change to the status quo could have huge global economic, political and security implications, especially given Taiwan’s leading role as a supplier of the most advanced semiconductors,” the text underlines.

It is the EEAS that asks to “reduce strategic vulnerabilities” that Europe against Chinadue to its dependence on the main raw material.

To meet the challenges posed by Beijing, “unity Europe continues to be the main ingredient,” as in Europe’s response to the Kremlin to the war in Ukraine.

The document also asks to “recognize that ‘Chinese offers to their partners still have significant attraction’ and therefore the ‘EU’ should offer the best offer, keeping its own promises, seeking improvements both in communication and in cooperation with others. “.

EEAS emphasizes the need to implement its Global Gatweay strategy, through which Brussels intends to tackle China’s new Silk Road, as well as work with sister countries, both the United States and countries in the Indo-Indonesia region.

Nonetheless, “China it will continue to be an important global player with whom the EU must talk, work, trade and negotiate on areas of common and global interest” such as climate change, health or food insecurity.

(As reported by EFE)