The international press agrees on this point: the virtual summit of the European Union with China this Friday 1is April, the first since 2020, is no picnic. For the European version of the site Politico, “Putin’s war and the frozen investment deal” between the two powers make this meeting “one of the most difficult in history”. is about “drawing the new contours of the world order, the stakes can hardly be higher”.
This virtual vertex is “thorny”, confirm it Financial Times, two other countries occupying the first place on the European agenda: Russia and Ukraine. Beijing’s support for Moscow has “united the 27 EU member states around a tough stance on China, after years of divisions fueled by the reluctance of some member states to jeopardize access to trade, investment and to Chinese tourists”.
It is true that Europe has “gathered” on the occasion of this crisis, confirms the Washington Post, because the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has “forced to rethink the way it works with authoritarian regimes”. The EU has “felt cheated by Moscow’s doublespeak and deeply regrets not having severed ties sooner”. It is this new Europe, more “skeptical”, q