Relations between the European Union and Taiwan have taken a surprising turn over the past year, with European officials embracin
Relations between the European Union and Taiwan have taken a surprising turn over the past year, with European officials embracin
Relations between the European Union and Taiwan have taken a surprising turn over the past year, with European officials embracing diplomatic cooperation with the self-governed island even as Beijing…
Europe risks shooting itself in foot with ‘premature’ Chinese trade agreement
The investment pact risks splitting EU members and alienating the US president – all for a deal with few benefits
21 February 2021 • 5:00am
The EU s investment pact with China could be geopolitical own goal
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Ursula von der Leyen boasted of bending China to Europe’s will at a Warwick conference earlier this month as the European Commission president spoke in grandiloquent terms of the region’s investment pact with Xi Jinping’s authoritarian regime.
Commitments from China to stamp out forced labour amid international outcry over the persecuted Uighurs put to work in Xinjiang province were emblematic of the “role I see for Europe on the global stage”. “China agreed to do this because of us,” the German stressed. This was “a forceful cooperation, a forceful progress”.
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Speaking to Euronews, Sabine Weyand said the trading relationship between the US and the European Union will not revert to the levels established under the Obama administration as Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump in the White House. Ms Weyand said: There will be no nostalgia. We are not going to back to the global order of the past years.