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EU blasted over China deal by own MEPs and experts - 'They got used' | World | News


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The EU agreed in principle terms for investment from China at the end of 2020, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen suggesting earlier this month they forced Beijing to commit to an end to forced labour. Walter Lohman, director of the Asian Studies Centre at the Heritage Foundation’s US think tank, said the EU “got used” by China with their Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). ....

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Europe risks shooting itself in foot with 'premature' Chinese trade agreement


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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