China has spent millions cultivating soft power, but its strident tone plus recent sanctions that reached every single EU member state may have cemented a shift in attitudes toward Beijing.
There's this danger that Xi Jinping is only listening to people who tell him positive things, and they're making disastrous mistakes.That the EU was preparing to sanction China was known to the Chinese leadership."These things are very transparent here in Brussels," Fallon said.
China's retaliatory sanctions targeted 10 European officials and scholars as well as four entities, among them German Green party MEP Reinhard Bütikofer, who chairs the EU's China delegation; and the Political and Security Committee, the EU's main foreign policy decision-making body comprising ambassadors from every member state.
Beijing's response was an attack on"the very fabric of democracies," Fallon said."If they don't think that there's going to be pushback from that, they're deeply mistaken." "There's this danger that Xi Jinping is only listening to people who tell him positive things, and they're making disastrous mistakes," she added.The EU-China investment deal promised to address China's asymmetric market access to Europe. For Xi, however, it was seen as a brilliant geopolitical move, concluded in principle in December despite apparent opposition by incoming Biden officials.
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