Sino-European Cooperation Matters
Disagreements with China are nothing new and can occasionally intensify during turbulent times. When the dust settles, prudent politicians are expected to offer foresight amid uncertainty.
Disagreements with China are nothing new and can occasionally intensify during turbulent times. When the dust settles, prudent politicians are expected to offer foresight amid uncertainty.
Increasing economic ties between Asia and Europe will be an irreversible trend on the world economic stage in decades to come.
If partners do not join hands in times of urgent need due to political reasons, dystopia will be the automatic result. Calmness and foresight must prevail. Good Sino-European relations will be beneficial for people in China, Europe and across the globe.
Washington hit the panic mode and has forced their hand on the Europeans in efforts to sabotage CAI. In response, the EU appears to have begun to retreat from their prior support with Beijing.
It is not China that needs to change its behaviour, but those countries that believe they can plunge the world into chaos under the guise of justice.
China’s new development paradigm with the domestic market as the mainstay and the internal and external markets reinforcing each other means it will not close its door to the outside world. Instead, China is building an open economy at a higher level while improving its economic resilience and competitiveness.
Their cooperation in international and regional affairs will surely promote the development trend of the world’s multipolarization and the establishment of a fair and reasonable new international political order.
After seven years’ investment of time and effort in reaching this agreement, it would be a pity if it simply came into existence and then brought about no change at all.
If the United States, China, Europe are able to reach a consensus on a new world order in which we can live, compete, cooperate together, the 21st century will be a safe one and will be a prosperous one.
The surge of Europe-China trade is firstly a sign of the Belt and Road Initiative’s success in integrating a continent and consolidating more efficient and effective supply chains, but it is secondly a sign that political stability delivers the most cohesive results.
The group of 17 European countries that joined the China-CEEC Summit has not been very homogenous. Different priorities, histories, sizes and cultures are not ignored.
The world has reached a crucial juncture, and relations among China, the U.S., and the EU have entered an unprecedentedly complicated stage. Opportunities for cooperation and risks of confrontation coexist and carry the same weight.