Thoughts on EP #plenary #China debate:
As long as MS pursue sectorial priorities in their bilateral engagements w🇨🇳, we will continue having fragmentation & disunity in #EUChina affairs!
The underlying problem remains a different one; it is time for a new 🇪🇺approach to🇨🇳
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IuliuWinkler/status/1648355944055619584
As the geopolitical situation has shifted, so should our strategy:
👉 need a new approach built on the 2019 parameters of cooperation, competition & confrontation
👉 reinterpret this to the new realities of 2023
👉decoupling=not an option
👉focus on de-risking!
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IuliuWinkler/status/1648355947633340417
Open Strategic Autonomy must be realised:
👉diversified/resilient supply chains abroad
👉industrial #competitiveness at home
🇪🇺 must rebalance economic relations w🇨🇳, including through strong autonomous #trade instruments
🤝Engage 🌍partners&focus on rules/values
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IuliuWinkler/status/1648355950208729089
❗️it must be stressed: maintaining status quo & geo-economic stability in #Taiwan Strait=key 🇪🇺 strategic interest
👉Lastly, it remains important that all EU institutions work in solidarity for the lifting of Chinese #sanctions on elected #MEPs and EU decision-making bodies
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IuliuWinkler/status/1648355952746278914
