‘Europe must take its own decisions’, says foreign minister José Manuel Albares
    • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
      72·
      12 hours ago

      The comments made by Spain are pretty clear about having a friendlier stance regarding China. By supporting Russia China is activly threatening EU security and that makes a friendly China policy not a reasonable option right now.

      • sucius1@lemdro.idEnglish
        71·
        10 hours ago

        By supporting Russia, the US is actively threatening EU security and that makes a friendly US policy not a reasonable option right now.

        Right now the US is threatening invasion of a part of Europe. The only reasonable option right now is going at it alone. Try to carve out our place in the world as Europeans. That entails forging a new China and US policy. China is a smaller threat that the US right now and by dealing with them, we could influence their policy towards Russia.

      • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        As China is increasing its influence mostly economically it would have more of an interest in EU security, to secure its economic activities.

        I think the EU should not be opposed to good economic ties with China, but has to be careful with not getting economically too dependent on China and needs to reduce already existing dependencies.

          • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            For instance rare earths, battery technology, solar cells, microchips.

            • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Oh. That’s a lot. Resources, knowledge and products.

              How are we going to do this?

              For example, what is Europe supposed to do if it doesn’t have as much rare earths in their territory as they would like to refine? And at the same time not become too (whenever that threshold is reached) dependant on someone who has?