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In recent weeks, the tensions between the US and Europe have reached something low – and China can be ready to use the fruit to strengthen its relationship on the continent.
Last week, Transatlantic strains came to head during a catastrophic meeting of US President Donald Trump, Vice President J. D. Vens and President of the Ukrainian Floodim Zelensky in the Oval office. What began as a potential signing of a critical mineral transaction ended with a public cry.
Trump also has repeatedly threatened the EU import tariffs and said the block was “formed to twist the United States.” At the same time, Vans last month at the Munich Security Conference, saying he was experiencing a “threat from the inside”.
This strain in the so -called “special relationship” saw that Beijing became an unexpected ally and supporter of Europe, with the Chinese Foreign Minister Van YI visited the continent last month to call for closer ties and more cooperation.
“China is clearly responsive to charm, trying to reflect itself as a stabilization power and a potential alternative pole, using European fears and hoping for Beijing’s own conditions,” said Alik Bachulska, a European Council policy, CNBC said.
Once the EU and Ukraine were stopped with surprise of peace talks under the leadership of the United States, Van said At the Munich Security Conference, at which China hopes that all parties can participate in peace talks to end the war in Ukraine. “Since the war is happening on European soil, it is, especially it is necessary for Europe to play a role for peace,” he said in the comments reports by Reuters.
According to Gabriel Wildau, the head of Tennea director, Beijing, who expresses support for the role of Europe in the Ukrainian peace talks, is a “inexpensive way” to signal her respect for the EU and “draw contrast with Trump”.
“China is aimed at gaining a strategic influence on Europe, as their investment and trade policies demonstrate. Cutors in the context of Ukraine must be evaluated in this light,” said Ian Bremmer, president on the political risk of Eurosia Group, via email.
No longer “slaves” for Americans
As Trump doubles on protectionist policy, analysts say China can get from Europe free from pressure in the US to impose sanctions and restrictions against Beijing.
Europe has historically been in general in line with the US trade policy aimed at protecting Western technologies and its economic interests.
Take the Dutch Equipment Manufacturers for chips AsmlFor example, whose sales of advanced semiconductor production equipment was restricted by the Dutch government Following US export control.
“A lot of mutual in China in Europe was at the request of the United States, which, in a sense, is part of the cost of subordination … and depends on the US for protection,” said David Rosh, a quantum strategy, said CNBC.
“Europeans can get (at potential tariffs), but they will no longer be slaves for Americans,” Rosh said.
Thus, the fracture of the Transatlantic Alliance can benefit Beijing because Europe becomes “less sensitive” to the US, said Wildau Teneo, which could lead to existing export control or at least stopping new ones.
Europe needs help
According to Wildau, the current tariffs for the European Union on Chinese vehicles, which said the bloc leaders may conclude that they do not have a “choice” except the return course, can be one of the examples of changes in trade policy.
The European Auto Guard was By increasing the pressure As cars fight against several prints, ranging from the transition to electric cars, the growth of competition from China and now the threats to the US tariffs.
Chinese cooperation can help Europe produce the details necessary for it EVS, which will allow the block to catch up with technology and achieve the set goals of sustainable development, Rosh offered – only one gap that China can potentially fill.
“The reality is that in the broadest sense, Europe should look for alternative markets for the US, China can help,” Rosh added.
President Trump’s last steps have shocked leaders in Europe, with Germany Friedrich Merz say Horde’s public television company after the party victory last week is that the US is “indifferent” to the fate of Europe and that its priority is “achieving independence from the United States”.
“Merz’s comments will not go unnoticed by Beijing,” – Thanos Papasvas, founder and chief director of ABP Invest, said CNBC by email: “The key issue is whether the traditional business relations with China will be in the same form.”
Still the same China
Some analysts say it is unclear how much progress can be made in repairing that it has long been a tense relationship between Europe and China.
“In the end, this is still the same China with which the EU has been fighting for the last few years – China, which supports Russia, China, threatening the industrial power of Europe, and China, which imposes sanctions on European officials and civil society organizations,” Bachulsk said.
Bremmer Eurasia Group added that in the end the efforts of Beijing to restore relations with Europe coincide with its broader goal of weakening the West as a whole, undermining the connection between Europe and the US
“Europeans will not be dispersed from the US transaction policy adopted in Washington, but openly hostile, predatory,” he said. “If this trend continues, transatlantic partners go to the split.”
