In an uncertain world, Europe’s commitment to multilateralism is good for stability and acknowledges China’s growing role. Obviously, not all European countries, whether member-states of the EU or not, agree, and sometimes they chart their own foreign policies.
The pandemic, despite some misunderstandings between China and the EU due to natural tensions in response to the virus that caught everyone by surprise, also showed solidarity that became evident when needed.
In times of a global calamity of such proportions, an escalation of the blame game will not yield favourable outcomes.
Cooperation is very important in difficult times, because no one can win on its own.
China and the EU cannot agree on everything but they are able to accommodate different interests and proceed together.
Cooperation is a must. It helps everybody in the very same way, because this is a global problem which starts at each single place and is of the same nature.
The EU and China must strengthen their partnership to overcome this crisis and provide the most vulnerable members of the international community with the support they need.
45 years of EU-China diplomatic relations have bonded the two sides into a comprehensive strategic partnership to jointly cope with global challenges and support each other.
These concrete areas of collaboration between the two countries constitute a heritage that will cement even more the traditional cultural and economic links between Italy and China. When the virus will be definitively eradicated, this empathic attitude will represent an extraordinary platform for enhancing friendship to the great benefit of the two nations.
Their decisions have caused an embarrassed and bruised US administration into a re-think in strategy. No longer able to demand allies such as the UK to follow its own position, the US is now targeting Huawei’s biggest competitors to try and bring it down.
China and Europe are both proponents of an inclusive trade system where the predictability and certainty provided by them is a balancing force against unilateralism. The global multilateral arrangement could have easily reached its tipping point if it was not for the willingness of China and Europe to keep it functioning.
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