China has launched a new round of diplomatic outreach for European countries amid growing tension between the United States and its European colleagues.
While top US authorities and European leaders hit the weekends on the weekend, the Munich Security Conference collided at the discovery of the discoveries as democracy and Ukraine, Chinese foreign alore Olaf Sholaz and NATO General Secretary Mark Rute.
Wang said during his meeting with Kallas on Saturday, “There is no fundamental struggle between interests or geopolitical conflicts between China and the European Union.” About war in Ukraine.
The European Union’s response was somewhat more reserved, Kalas said that the European Union “was ready to continue with dialogue and search in the selected sector, search as business, economic affairs and climate change.” He urged Beijing to stop the export of dual goods to Russia, stating that Moscow’s war against Ukraine fuel.
Wang’s comment was contrary to the criticism of US vice -president JD Vance’s European countries. Instead of highlighting the danger generated by Russia and China, Vance accused the European government of failing to sensor right -wing parties and control the migration.
Shocked European authorities in Munich, “I worry about what I worry about, with some of its most fundamental values, Europe’s retreat is one of the values shared with the United States, the United States.”
Several European leaders quickly dismissed Vance’s comments, the German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated that the characteristics of the US vice -president’s European policies “unacceptable”.
Rare open clashes between the US and European countries came as top American officials including State Secretary Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and the Middle East messenger of Trump Steve Witchoff. Diplomatic.
For the surprise of many European leaders, the American Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia’s celebrations said in Munich that European countries are not part of any speed talks.
The analyst says that China’s effort to strengthen the association with Europe is part of the plan of Beijing to take advantage of the division between Washington and its European colleagues.
“China’s currency is about taking advantage of the alleged mistakes of any US administration,” said Matthew Duchetail, director of International Studies at the French Policy Group Institute Montengen.
He told the VOA by phone that the current tension between the US and European countries has created an opportunity for Beijing to “weaken the transatalantic alliance on China policy”.
Given that US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on European countries, other experts say the growing stress in transatlantic relations may force the European Union to moderate his policies towards China.
Matej Simlikic, Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, “The European Union and the European Union member states cannot carry out two trade war for European Union and European Union member states for European Union and European Union member states,” This will be difficult for the European Union and Member States of the European Union. “In an interview in Taipei, told the VOA.
In recent weeks, European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen, who has pushed the European Union to adopt more vocal policies against China, has repeatedly said that blocks open to implement relations with China Is.
Europe said during a main speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, “Europe should attach to China creatively.
Hope to catch American European relations
While European countries may consider adjusting their China’s policies, some European analysts say it is unlikely to be in a fundamental change of European policies towards China and America for gymnasts for these efforts.
“America and Europe are the most importing partners of each other, so I don’t think there will be one there [complete] Translant brake, ”Saree Arho Havaren said, to associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
European countries “are testing the ground and seizing what can be done, but at the same time, European officials have said that it should be appropriate with China,” he phone by phone to VOA Told, saying that the factors will “prevent the European Union from walking” completely back to their earlier positions over China.
Additionally, at the institute, Duchetail said that Montengen said that Beijing’s decision to appoint a former Chinese ambassador in France Lu Shaya is a major “Wolf Warrior Diplomatic”, because its special representative for European affairs means that China means China Gave major concessions in his relations.
“The appointment of Lu represents the insufficiency on everything that matters,” he told the VOA, some European diplomat said that the new Chinese special messenger “has turned any diplomatic meeting into a type of ideological conflict which has been converted to any diplomatic meeting that There is no normal situation “and between European countries.
While the fundamental differences of China and the European Union have been discovered as Beijing’s partnership with Russia and the trade imbalance is unresolved, some Chinese academics say that the US and the European country still with increasing stress Provide opportunities for.
Increasing stress with the European Union with Shane Ding-Li has created a new environment for China for China for China for Moderate relations with the European Union, but this does not mean that the European country Russia or Want to reduce his criticism over Beijing’s partnership with China’s human rights record. , A Shanghai -based international relationship scholar, told VOA by phone.
