2023-05-14 01:05:00
The EU defends pragmatism with China but calls for trade balance and to push Russia to withdraw from Ukraine
The European diplomacy led by the High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, defends maintaining a unique approach focused on pragmatic relations with China, with open communication channels, but at the same time promoting more balanced trade relations and ensuring that Beijing plays a constructive role on the world stage, especially in getting Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine.
In the document designed by the EU External Action Service, to which Europa Press has had access, Borrell deals with the main points to adapt relations with Beijing to the new reality of a power with greater political, military and economic influence, which outlines a clash with the United States and that has a booming nationalism.
“The effective management of the EU’s relations with China requires constant adaptation and recalibration”, reads the paper prepared by Borrell, who insists that the Asian giant continues to be a partner, competitor and rival, as defined by the EU in 2019 , but which recognizes that these elements depend on China’s own conduct in the international arena.
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