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- world@lemmy.world
Europe, in its trade dealings with China, needs to act “in a more offensive way” to protect its own interests and those of its companies, [Germany’s] Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said.
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When it comes to China, let me only say one thing: China needs Europe more than Europe needs China," Nagel, who sits on the ECB’s Governing Council, said.
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We are a strong economy. We are four hundred fifty million people… So we should play the European card in a more offensive way."
Nagel said Europe needed to avoid a trade war with China and should maintain a dialogue but also needed to protect its own markets.
“The point that I would like to say here is that Europe should play the cards in a way that we are more convinced about ourselves, because the most important market for the European is Europe itself,” Nagel told a financial event.
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Well, this is so true. Not exclusively, but also for China. Beijing’s mass surveillance of its own citizens (China 1 surveillance camera for every 2 citizens) is a massive problem, as well as the ‘influencers’ covering the genocide in Xinjiang and elsewhere, as you touched it. But there are a lot more reasons. This is why we can easily agree to the linked report, it’s absolutely fair to say that Europe needs to be tougher on China.
i think we have 2 distinctly different conclusions from this.
chinas mass surveillance is not even close to what the uk does or what european countries want with palantir and chat control and the so-called ‘genocide’ in xinjiang was only pushed by western far right think tanks.
Yeah, this is exactly the point. China’s total control of the web and the society is far ahead with devastating consequences for the Chinese people and their freedom, and Palantir and ‘chat control’ is supposedly a timid step in this direction. But China is, again, far ahead. We see that in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia, for example, where several rights groups, personal witnesses, and international organizations provided ample evidence of China genocidal policies.
So, check the ‘facts’ you read! I don’t know where you get your information, but you may search for alternative sources.