Trade, the fifth generation of mobile telephony, human rights and China’s massive launch of a new sidenväg. It is not trätoämnen when the EUROPEAN union and China summit in Brussels on Tuesday.
In the negotiations for the meeting, have the differences been so great that it is doubtful whether the two powers will be able to present a joint final declaration, which is customary after the summits.
the disagreement on the trade. As well as the united states accusing the EU of China for not opening up its market sufficiently for foreign companies. In addition, the EUROPEAN union, as well as Donald Trump, tired of China competes with companies which receive state aid.
A diplomatkälla says to DN that several countries are hesitating to sign any final declaration if it does not show that China will make substantial progress.
EUROPEAN commission one month before the meeting put forward the ”strategic vision” in which China for the first time portrayed as ”systemic rival” shows that the EU has started to take a more cautious approach to the world’s second-largest economy. Although called China still even for a partner. But the new choice of words indicates an increase in suspicion.
and France has changed the tone towards China. Any unified EU line, however, are not. Several countries in the east have entered into close cooperation with China and recently wrote in Italy as the first G7 country during a avtalsförklaring to participate in China’s mastodontsatsning, the new Silk road.
Another sensitive topic at the meeting is the expansion of the fifth-generation mobile network, 5G. The united states has banned the chinese telekomjätten Huawei from participating in us procurement of 5G on the grounds that it is suspected that the company, through its network spying. New Zealand and Australia have gone the same way.
the EU has not yet adopted a common strategy. However, it was decided recently that the EU countries must share information about security vulnerabilities in 5G systems before the end of the year. An action that is directed toward the Huawei.
the allegations within the EU that China is trying to break the union would rather negotiate with the individual states and are happy to invest in countries that have a poorer economy, as the eastern european. This is denied, however, by the chinese prime minister Li Keqiang, who will represent China at the summit in Brussels, in an article in the German Handelsblatt. Li Keqiang claims that China wants to support the european integration and wishes to see a united Europe.
For China, it is an important political signal to come home with something positive from the EU summit. Even in the ongoing trade wars with the united states, it may be important for China to show progress in the relationship with the EU, which is China’s largest trading partner.
