Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping is trying to allay the European Union's unease about Beijing, in opposition to President Joe Biden's effort to coordinate trans-Atlantic defenses against the communist regime.
“China supports the strategic autonomy of the EU and hopes that the EU side will adhere to the basic positioning of China and EU as strategic partners,” Xi told German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a Tuesday call, per state media."China-EU relations should not target, depend on or be subject to any third party.”
“Those two are increasingly sharing a toolkit that should concern the NATO alliance,” Ambassador Julie Smith, who leads the U.S. mission at NATO headquarters, told Financial Times. “To be clear, what we’re talking about is understanding how China operates in and around the Euro-Atlantic area ... how it could, through some of its actions, create some security risks or vulnerabilities for collectively the alliance or individual member states.
The EU is in the process of hauling the communist regime before a World Trade Organization tribunal on two different complaints, one related to intellectual property rights.
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