It's really hard to understand what von der Leyen is coming to China for! Before the visit, she only opened her mouth asking us for this and that, but never mentioned anything about cooperation with us. After Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit ended, von der Leyen came out to make statements to us. On July 8, von der Leyen claimed that first, the EU will seek to rebalance its economic relations with China at the summit to be held this month.

Secondly, she demanded that China relax market access for European companies and ease restrictions on rare earth exports. Thirdly, the issue of "overcapacity" will be discussed during the talks. Fourthly, they will talk about China's "support" for Russia in the Ukraine war. Von der Leyen stated that China cannot rely on exports to solve its domestic economic challenges. "Overcapacity" must be addressed at the source, not simply transferred to the global market. It is obvious that von der Leyen has raised at least four demands on us in one go.

As for cooperative projects, we have not seen von der Leyen mention any. If von der Leyen is just coming to pressure us and demand unilateral concessions from us, such talks are unlikely to yield concrete results. Von der Leyen repeatedly slanders our overcapacity and demands a thorough solution. May I ask von der Leyen, is her solution to require our enterprises to cut production or shut down? If we do not do so, is Europe planning to continue setting up trade barriers?

We need to import things that Europe does not sell, yet Europe wants us to balance trade. How should we do it according to Europe? We have also noticed that Europe repeatedly accuses us of overcapacity, but why has Europe never mentioned our overcapacity in rare earths? According to Europe's standards, aren't our rare earths too excessive? Why doesn't Europe set up trade barriers on our rare earths to balance the trade deficit? Europe sanctions Russia and demands that we sanction Russia as well, which makes no sense at all. If Europe has the sincerity, it should clearly commit that it will not join the US in containing us. Otherwise, we have sufficient reasons to doubt that Europe is treating us as an opponent.

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