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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (146926)	3/13/2019 6:35:40 PM
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EU deep-state on full display let's watch progression seems to me EU is a paper entity, and as it began the disintegration process, each constituent state must think about the future time shall tell, whether EU does what Africa is told to do and didn't scmp.com European Union calls for united trade and tech front against ‘rival’ China‘Landmark’ paper appeals for more reciprocal economic relationship with bloc’s biggest trading partner Document is a wake-up call for those in Beijing banking on EU ties offsetting trade war pressure from the US, analyst says The call comes just over a week before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s planned visit to Italy and France and ahead of the annual China-EU summit in Brussels on April 9 that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will co-chair. In Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang acknowledged competition existed with the EU, but termed it healthy in nature. “I want to emphasise that we should take a correct attitude toward such benign competition and avoid treating each other as an adversary,” Lu said. Analysts said the EU’s move was an attempt to put pressure on Beijing ahead of the high-profile European appearances of Xi and Li, and to bridge divides within the bloc over China’s massive infrastructure strategy, the “Belt and Road Initiative”, and Chinese tech giant Huawei’s role in the networks of European telecoms firms. Pang Zhongying, a Beijing-based international affairs specialist, called the paper a landmark document that shared some of the US administration’s concerns about China. “[It also] highlighted the EU’s strong desire to find a new way to manage a fast-changing relationship with Beijing,” Pang said. “To some extent, it is also a wake-up for Beijing because it could upend the prevailing thinking among Chinese political elites who have pinned their hopes on close ties with Europe to offset the pressure from deteriorating relations with the United States amid the trade war.” Wang Yiwei, a European affairs expert at Beijing’s Renmin University, said Germany and France were behind the new EU paper and its advocating of a hardline approach on China. “With her retirement in 2021, [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel needs to secure her diplomatic legacy and prevent the crumbling EU from collapsing in the face of an increasingly powerful China and a United States under [Donald] Trump tilting further towards unilateralism,” Wang said. “The China factor, or more precisely the much-hyped Chinese threat, is the perfect excuse which could be used to seek unity with EU member nations.” But most Chinese analysts said it would be a long and difficult process for EU leaders to turn the document into policies because nearly 20 European nations had already expressed interest in the belt and road. And, unlike Beijing’s structural rivalry with Washington over global leadership, the competition with the EU was more about economic and trade interests, and Europe’s power over global governance and international systems. Huang Jing of Beijing Language and Culture University’s Institute of International and Regional Studies said Beijing needed to carefully study the paper and heed the EU’s concerns about its warming ties with Russia, deemed by Europe as the top security threat. “Beijing must be careful in deciding how to respond to the EU’s plans because it could not afford to further alienate itself amid the trade war with the US,” he said. “A deteriorating relationship with the EU could have a disastrous impact on China.” Additional reporting by Keegan Elmer