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Recently, the President of the European Commission and a well-known "hardliner on China" von der Leyen visited China, and she was accompanied by European Council President Charles Michel. Compared with Michel, von der Leyen's attitude towards China is more concerned by the Chinese public. Her visit to China is based on the mechanism of the annual China-EU summit, which is also the first time in four years that such a meeting between China and the EU has been held offline. And when she came to China this time, her attitude has obviously changed, and the EU top level has also made a commitment to China
Recently, European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held a press conference at the EU Mission to China, according to Guangzhou**. At the meeting, von der Leyen said that this is her second visit to China this year, which shows the importance of China-EU relations. She also said that the EU-China meeting reached a consensus and agreed to maintain a bilateral balance. It is worth noting that von der Leyen deliberately emphasized that the EU has no intention of "decoupling and breaking the chain" with China. Historically, von der Leyen has always been the EU's "vanguard" against China, and she has repeatedly pandered to the United States and advocated the EU's "de-risking" cooperation with China, which is obviously "very different" from her statement in China this time.
In April this year, von der Leyen came to China with France's Macron. Over the past four years, China-EU relations have gone through many ups and downs, but at the same time, many new opportunities have arisen, and the China-EU summit can promote mutual understanding and serve the common interests of China and the EU. In fact, as China's "door" to the outside world opens wider and wider, more and more European countries have reaped tangible benefits, which the EU cannot ignore. In 2022, the amount of China-Europe freight trains will reach 847.3 billion US dollars, and the scale of China-Europe freight trains will continue to increase. There is no doubt that the common interests of China and the EU outweigh their differences, and Europe follows the United States in sanctioning China, but in fact it loses its own interests.
Although some European countries still make "noises", such as Italy, which announced its withdrawal from the "Belt and Road" initiative a few days ago, on the whole, the EU is reluctant to give up cooperation with China. European Council President Charles Michel made a special promise during his visit to China, saying that the EU will unite and work to establish stable and mutually beneficial relations with China. To put it bluntly, the reason why there will be disagreements within Europe is not because of their original will, but because of external "pressure", and it is self-evident who this "external pressure" is. Even Italy, which withdrew from the "Belt and Road" this time, hastened to explain, saying that the withdrawal is for the better and healthier development of China-Italy relations.
In recent years, the EU seems to be in an increasingly difficult situation, with many thorny issues to be resolved. First of all, Brexit, the influence of the European Union has been greatly reduced, with the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, the relationship between Europe and Russia has become tense, and this year's Palestinian-Israeli conflict has made the European Union follow the United States, which has been widely criticized by the international community, and has also aggravated the European economic crisis, and also triggered a series of internal contradictions. For now, Europe needs to find a "balance" between China and the United States. If the EU wants to truly become independent from the United States, it must rely on China's help. And in this regard, throughout Europe, France is playing the role of "bellwether". 
Judging from von der Leyen's statement, although this represents the overall attitude of the EU, it does not represent their "voice", let alone prove that they can do it. Of the 8 billion people in the world, 6 billion must know that the West's promises are not worth much, so it is still the same sentence: listen to its words, but also watch its deeds.
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