The EU's New Plan to Handle China

As a European, one has the feeling that we have become quite naive since a few decades. I hope this is just a feeling and it doesn't come to a disaster.

"late 2010s" makes it sound like it was so long ago lmao

Europe should do what is best for Europe. Diversification and support for local production is necessary for maintaining prosperity and high quality of life.

Now whether they stick to this plan is another story

Commercial and trade integration was supposed to be EU (Germany)’s win-win strategy with Russia. That worked out well…

the US will get more hawkish regardless of who wins , their foreign policy for the last and current presidents were similar in fact escalating in the same direction.

They used to use words like "win-win", "mutual benefits", etc. Now the west only use words like "handle", "contain", etc.

As a EU citizen, I have always been frustrated by the lack of long-term vision of our politicians. Corruption in the European institutions and education systems is the cause.

it's a shame haven't seen any channel taking the analysis 1 step further and look into the possible reactions from China side

For her tough talk Van der Leyen was sent through the tourist queue in Beijing airport. China followed protocol as she was not invited and she was not a head state.

This is more than needed. EU has to learn its lessons with Russia's invasion in Ukraine. If the EU does not prepare itself and China invades Taiwan, that crisis will make the current war like a joke. Almost 1 trillion in trade means we need to rethink how trade is done. Germany might be good on many things, as seen in its relation with Russia until the war, international relations and strategy, is clearly not one of them. Besides, we need to reindustrialise some areas in Europe, particularly in areas where unemployment is high.

Von de Leyen had to go to China on a commercial flight, received no red carpet or military honour guard and only the ecology minister was there to greet her. Meanwhile, Macron got the whole pomp and circumstance, foreign minister there to greet him at airport, state banquet and was even invited to sit down together with Xi for tea in Guangzhou, view the Songyuan gardens and listen to guqin performance (it's very rare for Xi to meet foreign leaders outside Beijing). Tells you everything you need to know really. Airbus sales go BBBRRRRRRRR

Remarkable how precisely the movement of Ben's right hand matches the rythm of his speech.

The EU is playing cautiously with China mainly because every modern day manufacturing process is very damaging to the environment. We have offloaded all of that to China and also to end our energy dependency on russian fossil fuels we need hi-tech "green" solutions that are again manufactured in China. Globalization is a great thing that is extremely beneficial for all if the actors are predictable and benevolent.

thx for info!

Correction: At 3:22 those eagles are outlines of the russain state seal, not the german

Wow, has the Eu actually learning from past experiences? Legit impressed.

Great informative video and a very good way to show it easy to us users of YouTube. 👍

Very good summary

Great video!