Media mentions – China Analysis
The fundamental issue here is not Russia, but China. What Washington wants is to build a common front with other states against China.
The time has come for a more coordinated and systematic European policy towards Chinese power politics
Europe’s options are very limited if we do not want to risk a real conflict with Beijing
This is exactly where we are in the conversation, a European strategic reassessment of the relationship with China, and the challenges that China poses not globally but quite directly to the European economy
Brussels should offer London to take the lead—there might be cases in the future where we think it would be more natural the other way around
ECFR co-chair Carl Bildt responds to Judy Dempsey's question: Hong Kong Calls. Can Europe Respond?
Europe’s initial response has been timid […] But decisive support for safeguarding civil rights and fundamental freedoms for Hong Kong’s people is never optional but an imperative—and it is not too late
One way or another, the structural changes working through the global order may have eventually produced a new debate about China anyway. But now that COVID-19 has laid bare both Europe’s dependencies and China’s true intentions, a strategic shift is well underway.
It benefited from the contrast that many Europeans drew between China and Russia. In this view, whereas Russia was actively hostile to the EU, China only sought to stymie European unity on a set of narrowly Sinocentric issues.
We are not witnessing a new Cold War between the US and China: this term would be oversimplifying the complex dynamics currently at play