The British media "Financial Times" published an article suggesting that if China wants to avoid EU sanctions against China, it must help the EU sanction Russia and force Russia to be completely finished.
The EU's pursuit of strategic autonomy and its close footing of the United States is actually harming its own interests
For a long time, Europe and the United States have been close for historical and ideological reasons, and the United States has actually treated Europe as its own henchman, not for the purpose of defending European interests, which come first. With the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the United States has further coerced Europe and jointly established an enemy for Europe - Russia.
The root cause of the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict can be traced back to the 2014 conflict in East Ukraine, and the United States played an important role
However, Europe's own interests are still completely different from those of the United States, except for the United Kingdom, which is the follower of the United States and the-stirring stick of Europe, most European countries are actually the parties whose interests have been damaged in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Previously, because of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the entire Russian cheap oil and gas resources stopped supplying, which was a complete blow to the European Union, resulting in serious damage to its own industry, and at the same time, it was necessary to buy from the United States or other countries at a high price, and French President Macron even publicly said that it was unfair for the EU to spend 3 times the price to buy natural gas from the United States.
The United States continues to raise interest rates and print the dollar, and it is bound to find a "receiver" in the world
And with the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the US dollar interest rate hike, the United States once again successfully harvested Europe, attracting a lot of dollars to return to the country, and this method was also tried again in Japan this year, harvesting nearly 10 trillion yen in Japan, a trick that has been tried and tested repeatedly.
Europe has lost cheap Russian oil and gas resources, which has a significant impact on its industrial development
Europe, especially the European Union and Russia, does not have essential structural conflicts and contradictions, especially from the economic situation, in the past, Europe needed Russia's cheap oil and gas resources, Russia is a resource-exporting country, Europe needs these cheap oil and gas resources to reduce its own industrial production costs, and at the same time, Europe exports a large number of industrial products to Russia, and the two are complementary.
However, with the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Europe blindly followed the United States to impose comprehensive sanctions on Russia, completely shut down enterprises in Russia, and suffered a lot of economic losses. The market share vacated by the West is not wanted, and other countries will naturally enter the market.
The EU put forward conditions for China: stop economic and trade exchanges with Russia
That's right, it's China, as the world's largest industrial manufacturing country, since the West has vacated a large share of the market share in Russia, China has exported a large number of industrial products to Russia, which is also a much-needed product for Russia.
And with the full withdrawal of Western companies, the Russians have also found that Chinese products are of high quality and low price, and the performance is not worse than similar Western products, and the price is cheaper, so they have changed the stereotype of Made in China 20 years ago, and since 2022, the trade volume between China and Russia has repeatedly reached new highs, and has now exceeded 240 billion US dollars, greatly exceeding previous expectations.
The safety of oil and gas pipelines from Russia to China is guaranteed
China imports a large number of cheap oil and gas resources from Russia, and it can be said that China's industrialization is indispensable for oil and gas resources, but China's oil and gas production capacity is far from that of the United States and Russia, and China's own oil and gas production capacity alone cannot meet the needs of the whole country.
Therefore, China has imported oil and gas resources from abroad on a large scale in recent years, most of which are through sea routes, and Malacca is the only way. Both India and the United States have put forward the strategy of cutting off China's maritime trade routes in wartime, which in fact poses a threat to China's wartime trade security that cannot be ignored.
By increasing China's imports of oil and gas resources from Russia, it is safer to use land than sea, and there are no restrictions.
In addition to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the recent outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States has implicated Europe, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has now spilled over, Iran retaliated against Israel, Britain and France had to send troops to assist in the defense.
The Houthis pose a mortal threat to Western merchant ships
In addition, due to the concentrated attack of Western merchant ships by the Houthis in Yemen, EU merchant ships now do not even dare to pass through the Suez Canal, and can only take a detour through the Cape of Good Hope, which greatly increases the cost and affects the economy to a certain extent.
Therefore, the major countries within the EU also believe that they cannot blindly be the "followers" of the United States, but must be independent, and French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have made similar remarks before. France and Germany have also expressed their disapproval of von der Leyen, a proxy for US interests, to continue as president of the European Commission, as her interests do not always coincide with those of the EU.
Von der Leyen is a staunch pro-American faction in the EU
However, the United States does not want Europe to be "strategically autonomous" in the true sense of the word, and hopes that the European Union and the United States will jointly confront China and Russia. The relationship between China and the EU is also full of twists and turns, but due to the close cooperation between China and the EU in the economic and trade fields, the United States' past plans to hope that Europe will completely decouple from China have not succeeded, and China and the EU have reached a consensus on further economic and trade cooperation, that is, the more China itself develops, the more beneficial it will actually be for the EU.
But now things seem to have changed, mainly because with the full rise of China's industrial chain, China is now enough to compete with Europe in the field of high-end products, such as the most concerned new energy vehicles, China has now occupied an advantage in this field, and at the same time fully exports to foreign countries, especially Europe.
China's new energy vehicle export tide, the EU is unstoppable
Coercion and inducement are useless against China, and imposing sanctions on China can only "lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot"
EU President Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview in Berlin, Germany, that Europe must prevent Chinese electric vehicles from entering the European market, and restrictions must be taken against it, so the so-called "fair trade" is completely a pretext. Essentially, because the EU can't compete with China in electric vehicles, the pro-American faction led by von der Leyen believes that it will impose sanctions on China like the United States, impose additional tariffs, and counter Chinese car companies.
The EU and the United States frequently mention the so-called "overcapacity" of China, the purpose of which is to demand that China destroy the Great Wall, avoid competition with Europe and the United States, and permanently safeguard the long-term interests of Europe and the United States.
In response to this short-sighted behavior, the CEO of BMW made it clear that the EU's possible measures to impose additional tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China would only "shoot itself in the foot", arguing that "the European auto industry does not need trade protection". Tariffs on Chinese EVs could also jeopardize the EU's plans to reduce emissions.
Blinken's previous visit to China also called for "decoupling" between China and Russia
British media said that China could sanction Russia in exchange for mercy from the EU's subordinates, after the leaders of the EU and the United States also demanded that China take practical measures to sanction Russia.
It can be said that this is completely impossible, but the British media also believes that this is something that China may consider, and the British media said for example that many people will think that the Sino-European negotiations are unrealistic, but Nixon can achieve the ice-breaking of Sino-US relations, and Gorbachev can also achieve the self-destruction of the Soviet Union, in fact, everything is possible.
China and Russia currently have a wide range of common interests
I have to say that I don't know how much fake wine the British media drank to write this kind of text rubbish, and the most basic principle of the negotiation is that the conditions of both sides are based on reciprocal dignity. The EU is making cards in the air, will China have no bottom line to comply? Even the United States cannot be China's "teacher", so which round will the EU criticize China's foreign policy?
Moreover, such an argument of the British media is completely a "-stirring stick", anyway, the interests of the UK and the EU are not aligned, and it is the only "political correctness" to closely follow the US anti-China.
Some experts pointed out that no one will obey the "orders" of the European Union or the United States, normal trade between China and Russia will continue, and China will not take any form of sanctions against Russia, which is a "fake issue".
It can be said that China's position on the Ukraine issue is very clear, and it has always made independent judgments based on the historical context and merits of the Ukraine issue, and we have always stood on the side of peace and justice.
Therefore, for Russia and Ukraine, China will not send them any weapons to "add fuel to the fire" at all, while the double standard of Europe and the United States is fully revealed, on the one hand, comprehensive military assistance to Ukraine, and a steady stream of various advanced weapons.
On the other hand, the issue of China's arms delivery to Russia is hyped at every turn, although the US military has made it clear that there is no evidence that China has provided military aid to Russia, but the EU has been hyping up this topic for more than two years, and it is still happy to do it, purely "making cards in vain".
It can be said that if China really starts military aid to Russia, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will end quickly with the victory of the Russian army, and it will not drag on until now.
The West is not even satisfied with this, and the EU leaders have asked China to express its stance at every turn to demand that it initiate sanctions against Russia, hoping that China will sever normal economic and trade relations with Russia, which is completely whimsical.
Under the current circumstances, the bloc led by the United States has carried out an all-round suppression of China and Russia, and China and Russia have no choice but to strengthen their cooperative relations "back to back" due to the threat of the United States.
If Russia is hit hard by the West, it will not be good news for us
Russia is now sharing the strategic pressure of the United States in Europe, and if China cooperates with the West to impose comprehensive sanctions on Russia, Russia is finished, then it will be China's turn next, and the United States will concentrate all its forces to encircle and blockade China, which is the worst-case scenario.
All in all, neither the EU nor the United States has the right to dictate China's foreign policy, and as for the "intimidation" of European sanctions, it cannot scare China.
Because there have been analysts within the EU who believe that sanctions against China are "lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot", which is equivalent to "threatening China with a knife at their neck", and any provocation against China is unacceptable. China's countermeasures are also unbearable for the EU, and Asia's largest economy is an important market for the EU.
If the EU adopts sanctions, then the economic problems for the EU will be far greater than those brought to China, which may lead to an "inflation explosion", because Europe will have to accept the rise in the price of key materials, while China may be more autonomous, or turn to other markets to replace the European market, and the EU economy will be further hit or even an economic crisis.
Some of the content in the article comes from: 1. German transport minister rejects EU tariffs on Chinese automakers: does not want to block the market Globo.com