Published: March 24th, 2021,
Last updated: January 5th, 2022
Historical caesuras can usually only be recognized as such from a certain distance in time. The current exchange of blows between China and the EU, with mutual sanctions and accusations regarding the situation of the Muslim minority in Xinjiang, already has the potential to do so: Europe has sat up and sanctioned China for human rights violations for the first time since the Tiananmen massacre.