Views: China Unions anti -US anti -American non -essential flow situation is obv

Source: Economic Daily

Sino -US economic and trade confrontation has intensified, and the relationship between the European Union and mainland China has also changed.I still remember that in the past two years, the Chinese President ... Several times with Germany and French leaders talked about confrontation against protectionism, maintaining free trade, and a situation of fighting against the United States for anti -US.But in fact, affected by the attitude of the United States, the EU's attitude towards China has made significant adjustments, becoming an important variable in the development of the world pattern after the Sino -US confrontation.

Among the 2018 Trade and Investment Bargen Report (TIBR) released by the European Union Executive Committee last week, China replaced Russia for the first time, becoming a country with the most trade and investment obstacles in Europe.After chasing, there were 34 obstacles.

Interestingly, if compared with 2017, the country with the most trade and investment obstacles at that time was Russia, with 36 obstacles projects, and only 25 in China.That is to say, in the past year, the European Union has reduced two obstacles in Russia, but the number of obstacles in China has increased by 50%.Export products affected by obstacles are as high as 25.7 billion euros.

This result has a big gap between the direction of cooperating with both parties to promote economic and trade liberalization, and it also reflects that the EU is probably not easy to treat Beijing as the real allies of liberalization.In the TIBR report, although the European Union pointed out that it will continue to solve the problem through dialogue, it also emphasizes that if the negotiation is invalid, it will resolutely seek the relief of the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute resolution mechanism.

WTO is indeed a battlefield for China and Europe.Taking the mandatory technology transfer of the U.S. initiating tariff wars as an example, in June last year, the European Union also filed a complaint to the WTO with the practice of coordinating and import and export control in mainland China.In the trial.

On the other hand, the European Union has so far refused to recognize China's market economy status in the anti -dumping survey, which led China to sue the European Union with the WTO in 2016.Chinese experts said that this is a move to change its position in Beijing's considering the overall situation, but internationally believes that it has been reported that China may lose the lawsuit before.It is a step that China has to take.

These offensives reflect the change of EU's attitude towards China after being influenced by the United States.In March of this year, French President Machong publicly stated that the EU's long -term naive ideas for China's long -term holding must be changed, and it is a strategic error to allow Chinese capital to obtain infrastructure such as ports in the EU.German Chancellor Merkel also stated that it should pay more attention to the status of Chinese competitors.

Not only the individual changes in German and French powers, these attitudes are more specifically reflected in the transformation of Chinese policies in the overall EU.Since 2003, the European Union has officially defined its relationship with mainland China as a comprehensive strategic partner.However, in the European -China Interactive Strategy Report in March this year, the European Executive Committee changed its basic position in the past 15 years, pointing out that for the EU, China now has three identities: comprehensive strategic partners, strategic competitors in the field of science and technology and economy,(Strategic Competitor) and Strategic Rival pursuing different governance modes.

Scientific and technological competitors means that the European Union in the field of science and technology and economy will be the basis for ensuring competitive advantages and preventing stealing steps to maintain a fair competitive environment.In public governance issues, it will adopt a position against the Chinese governance model to win support for the EU's believe in the governance structure.

The recent changes in the above European Union are exactly the same as that of the Trump administration's position and attitude. The differences are only in the implementation of specific implementation; Trump is the Yankees of the Yankees, and the EU is a relatively elegant European gentleman.But whether it is soft, the challenge to the Chinese model is quite consistent.The China Union and European Anti -U.S. Alliance seems to be difficult to take shape, but it leads to the European and American joint fronts. For Beijing, do you know whether it is wrong or unexpected?For Taiwan and the Asia -Pacific countries, the situation of the world's diversion seems to be clearer, and it must be prepared early to make a response.