China warns EU against pressure over anti-Russian sanctions
The European Union should not think that it has leverage on official Beijing – as published in China’s Global Times newspaper
The material was published on the eve of the top-level meeting – scheduled for early April – which is expected to be devoted to bilateral co-operation across a range of areas.
According to Bloomberg, the European Union, in co-operation with the United States and in solidarity with Biden, intends to ‘warn China against helping Russian President Vladimir Putin’ and to threaten with ‘serious consequences’.
As noted in the Global Times publication, the EU needs interaction with China more than ever. As an economically powerful world state, China has maintained a steady economic growth over the past two years. Economic and trade liaisons between China and the EU states don’t abate despite mounting obstacles. China is the largest trading partner for the EU.
It is underlined that mutual interests are so great that no forces inside the European Union and outside it should be allowed to derail ties with China because of senseless threats and rhetoric.
