Sanctions and hard talk can do little to stop China becoming ever more dangerous to Europe, an EU analysis has indicated.
China "is siding clearly with Russia" in its war on Ukraine, the EU foreign service said in a strategy paper being discussed by foreign ministers in Stockholm on Friday (12 April) and seen by EUobserver.
"The EU needs to maintain clear messaging on the serious negative impact on EU-China relations in case of Chinese circumvention of sanctions and the provisio...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.