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EU strategy: China increasingly becoming a competitor

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Published: October 18th, 2022,
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The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is meeting in Beijing – and the future orientation of the People’s Republic also plays a key role some 8,000 kilometers to the west. The EU will initially continue to use its familiar triad of „partner-competitor-system-rival“ in this form, said EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell on Monday after the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg. The middle part of the term „competitor“ will become more important, Borrell said. Because that was how China currently acts, he said. „We cannot pretend that China does not exist,“ he stressed.

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