EU Expects Little From China Summit in Contrast With Japan Hope
This week, European leaders will meet Japanese and Chinese colleagues, and with high expectations for better defense and trade cooperation with Tokyo, they will contrast with limited hopes for discussions in Beijing.
The European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen and the President of the Council of Europe Antonio Costa will travel to Asia this week and will first meet with Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday in Tokyo, then China President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Thursday.
According to European officials who were informed to journalists before the meeting, leaders in Japan plan to sign agreements on the Defense Industry cooperation and economic security. However, the authorities said that there was no expectation of a joint statement from the summit meeting in Beijing.
One of the authorities expects an important agreement from the European delegation to targeting only a “basic, open, direct, good and constructive speech from the Chinese meeting. The authority hopes to clearly state what it wants to do to correct the sustainer of Beijing of Beijing to correct its sustainable economic relations and re -balancing bonds.
Cui Hongjian, a former Chinese diplomat that taught at Beijing University of Foreign Studies, said, “The atmosphere of the Chinese-Europe relations has become sensitive before the summit,” he said. “Some positive conditions such as Trump’s tariffs may bring both sides closer, but other negative conditions, such as their differences in the Ukrainian issue, prevent better Chinese-Europe relations.”
An official said that an agreement on climate change cooperation may arise, but even this remained unclear.
The ties between the EU and China have worsening since Pandemik, European complaints include Beijing’s trade practices and support for Moscow.
For Brussels, the cooperation between China and Russian companies supporting Moscow’s military industrial complex despite European sanctions is a special debate point. On Friday, the EU approved two Chinese banks and five Chinese -based companies as part of the latest measures on Ukrainian invasion against Russia. The movement pointed out the first European sanctions against Chinese banks and protested from Beijing, which promised a response to protect and protect its own companies.
Emphasizing European trade frustrations, according to the data published last week, China’s trading surplus in the first half of this year broke a record for a period of six months. Rapid -growing Chinese exports and contraction imports pushed the excess to about 143 billion dollars until June, although the first half of the year was usually slower before the holidays were taken before holidays.
The tensions worsened due to the decision to bring export controls to the rare soil magnets and relevant products of Beijing, which shaking European automobile companies and other sectors of April.
While these posts see a rebound last month, it remains unclear whether it will satisfy the Europeans who demand that China to solve the problem before the summit. Von Der Leyen previously accused China for “arming” in the seven meeting groups last month.
On the other hand, the visit to Japan will explain the attempts of European authorities to develop things that are described as ız Our closest strategic partner in the Indo-Pacific region ”. They said that the defense and security, industrial policy, external intervention and manipulation of the steps would include the cooperation between countries in EU and CPTPP as well as business competitiveness, and the free trade agreement between the Asia-Pacific region and 12 countries in the UK.
Last month, the EU and Japan organized the first “Security and Defense Dialogue .. An official said he would attempt to change the common opposition of the EU and Japan with difficult or coercion in the Taiwan Strait.
With the help of Martin Ritchie.
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