De-risking from China is necessary, but forging green partnerships with other parts of the world is challenging
Media mentions – China
What we used to see as value-driven, dreamy foreign policy has become the new Realpolitik. This is what distinguishes us from the way economic policy works in China.
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine it turns out that expectations of a split were misguided
Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard explain that Putin and Xi’s hopes of driving a wedge between Europe and the US have not been realised
Xi’s primary objective is to maintain the CCP’s dominance and legitimacy, which for many decades has been based on the party’s ability to achieve rapid economic growth
Now it is largely a matter of damage control … but Macron’s visit has had deep consequences and there is no clarity yet about what kind balance will ultimately emerge
With Macron, this business delegation, it’s definitely a signal towards Beijing that economic cooperation is still very high on the agenda in Paris, but also at the level of the EU as a whole
One benefit of those deals may be to mollify some of the anger at home
Some European leaders are under the illusion that Beijing’s statements have any impact on Russia’s nuclear strategy
Macron is not the “president of Europe”, but he divides Europe at least as much as France
[China] has developed a different concept of ‘”democracy,” based on the ability of all countries to emancipate themselves from Western domination