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« Last post by chandoona ct on August 30, 2023, 12:37:17 am »What we see – and this predates Xi Jinping's rise to power – is a Chinese turn towards Europe in terms of export markets and foreign investment after the 2008 financial crisis and into the mid-2010s. China also experiences a financial crisis, in 2015, caused in large part by the measures of the US Federal Reserve to restore some monetary normality by raising interest rates. This crisis, quite serious from the Chinese point of view, leads the Central Bank of that country to impose more capital controls, which causes a withdrawal of investments in the EU.
However, this occurred to a lesser extent in Eastern and Southern European countries than in Western European countries. As a result, in 2016 it became clear that the relationship with China was dividing the EU . Furthermore, Germany had India Email List a special economic relationship with China beginning in the 2000s, thanks to its unique export capacity in Europe. So there was already a difference around China in the EU , which was linked to the uniqueness of the German economy, to which were added divisions around the countries in which the Chinese continued to invest after.

Given this situation , Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron were quite unhappy with the turn that relations between the eu were takingand China, and with the ability of the Chinese authorities to divide Europe. This tension really came to a head in early 2019, when Italy decided to join the new silk roads. For this reason, Merkel and Macron made a lot of efforts to achieve the global investment agreement. To the extent that this agreement materialized in December 2020, in the interlude between the US presidential election and the inauguration of Joe Biden as the new president, it seems to me that it was a true declaration of strategic autonomy, indicating that The EU could not be constrained by the state of US -China relations.
However, this occurred to a lesser extent in Eastern and Southern European countries than in Western European countries. As a result, in 2016 it became clear that the relationship with China was dividing the EU . Furthermore, Germany had India Email List a special economic relationship with China beginning in the 2000s, thanks to its unique export capacity in Europe. So there was already a difference around China in the EU , which was linked to the uniqueness of the German economy, to which were added divisions around the countries in which the Chinese continued to invest after.

Given this situation , Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron were quite unhappy with the turn that relations between the eu were takingand China, and with the ability of the Chinese authorities to divide Europe. This tension really came to a head in early 2019, when Italy decided to join the new silk roads. For this reason, Merkel and Macron made a lot of efforts to achieve the global investment agreement. To the extent that this agreement materialized in December 2020, in the interlude between the US presidential election and the inauguration of Joe Biden as the new president, it seems to me that it was a true declaration of strategic autonomy, indicating that The EU could not be constrained by the state of US -China relations.
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