Europe has clearly stated its position! Just before the China-EU summit, EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas has made two positions clear to us! On July 21, the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas, who is about to accompany von der Leyen and Costa on a visit to China, said that China's trade policy and China's "key support" for the Ukraine war are still obstacles to Sino-European bilateral relations.
Kallas said that China told us that they want to be good partners and are interested in our partnership. But if you want to build a partnership, you have to listen to the other party's concerns. Obviously, although this time the tone of Kallas' statement was not so strong, her intention to ask us to change our position on economic and trade issues and the Ukraine issue was very obvious.
In Kallas' understanding, because China hopes to become a good partner with Europe, China must actively respond to Europe's concerns on these two issues and take substantial actions. For Europe's position, we have already been very clear. We don't say whether Europe's attitude is reasonable or not. We just talk about reality, which is that Europe plans to exchange China's change of position by cooperating with us in what areas?
First, can Europe let the China-EU Investment Agreement take effect and further remove the trade barriers it has set for us? Second, can Europe issue a statement that it will never join the United States in containing China? Third, can Europe clearly express support for our peaceful unification and reduce or not participate in the provocative activities of the United States in the South China Sea? If Europe is unwilling to do anything, but only wants us to make concessions unilaterally and still holds prejudices against us, the major concessions that Europe wants to see from us are almost impossible to happen.
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