Published: July 14th, 2021,
Last updated: July 14th, 2021
For EU institutions, China often remains the notorious elephant in the room. Everyone knows what it’s about, everyone knows who it is, but no one talks about it. Official communication only speaks of it as „other important economies“. Earlier this week, even the declaration of the EU foreign ministers on „globally networked Europe“ was keeping quiet about the obvious. Not a single word about the People’s Republic – and that of all things in an Initiative, with which Brussels wants to directly challenge China’s New Silk Road.