On December 7, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel visited China. The visit to China is based on the annual meeting mechanism between China and the EU, which is also the first face-to-face meeting between China and the EU in four years.
This is von der Leyen's second visit to China this year, after she announced a countervailing investigation into China's electric vehicles despite China's opposition, which caused heated discussions in the international community, and even local European companies have a lot of objections. Therefore, during her visit to China, the outside world is concerned about whether she will continue to adhere to her tough attitude and sanctions against China.
After all, China is the second largest partner of the European Union after the United States, with a total of more than 850 billion euros in 2022.
However, it is regrettable that shortly after von der Leyen's visit to China, the EU delegation to China issued a "letter of challenge" to China, once again hyping up issues related to Xinjiang and Tibet on the so-called "human rights" and pointing fingers at China's internal affairs.
On December 10, the EU delegation to China issued a statement reiterating its "concern" about the dire human rights situation in China and urging China to respect, protect and realize the "human rights" of all people, including Uyghurs, Tibetans and other minorities.
This is not the first time that the EU has hyped up this issue, and its purpose is only to use the so-called "human rights" to smear and slander China and reduce China's influence in the international community.
Naturally, China will not be accustomed to this.
On the 11th of the next day, China's *** spokesperson Mao Ning responded that the EU baselessly accused Chinese of human rights, spread false news, smeared China's image, and seriously interfered in China's internal affairs. China strongly deplores and resolutely opposes this, and has lodged solemn representations with the European side.
The EU keeps smearing China, doesn't it look in the mirror itself?European countries have violated the rights of refugees and migrants, xenophobia is rampant, racial discrimination is severe, and gun violence is common. On many issues such as freedom and forced labor, the EU also has a serious "double standard" face. They are not able to handle their own internal affairs well, but they are keen to meddle in their internal affairs and label China as unwarranted.
In this regard, Mao Ning stressed that China urges the EU to abandon arrogance and prejudice, abandon hypocritical "double standards", and take concrete actions to improve its own human rights situation, instead of pointing fingers at China.
Judging from this diplomatic confrontation, the EU is determined to stand on the opposite side of China.
Whether von der Leyen or the EU as a whole is positioned, in the final analysis, it is a matter of interests. In recent years, due to the impact of the epidemic and war, Europe has imported a large number of goods from China, which has led to a large ** deficit in Europe with China, reaching a staggering 400 billion euros in 2022 alone.
If cooperation is carried out within the framework of the principle of fairness and justice, European products will not be able to compete with Chinese products at all. Therefore, von der Leyen's visit to China put forward many unreasonable conditions, such as asking China to provide more lenient entry guidelines for European companies, eliminating subsidies for export goods, and so on.
However, China's response is "three nos": we cannot regard each other as rivals because of differences in systems, we cannot reduce cooperation because of competition, and we cannot engage in confrontation because of differences.
Von der Leyen's visit to China hit a wall and could only leave in disgrace, but she was unwilling to be unable to compete with China, so she concocted this statement. To put it bluntly, this is a manifestation of the EU's fearless rats, we just need to take a firm stance, China does not necessarily have to enter Europe, but European countries must have lost China miserably.
Clowns such as von der Leyen are trying to coerce China into making concessions with China-EU relations, which not only achieves their goals, but further exposes the hypocrisy of Western power politics.