Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, believes that the formation of a Western alliance in this area would do substantial harm to the CCP. (Screenshot from Weibo)
Recently, many countries in Europe and the United States have joined hands to impose sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party, and Beijing has also launched “counter-sanctions”, while the Chinese Communist Party’s official media has once again issued articles in a “War Wolf” posture. “lifeline”.
On the morning of March 22, the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada made a rare simultaneous move to impose sanctions on Beijing over the Chinese Communist Party’s violation of human rights in Xinjiang Uyghur. Among them, the EU, the UK and Canada sanctioned four CCP officials as well as a Chinese entity, banning them from entering the country and freezing their foreign assets.
The CCP responded swiftly the same day, announcing sanctions against 10 individuals and four entities in Europe.
On the afternoon of the 23rd, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the CCP’s Global Times, posted a long article on Weibo saying that the first joint sanctions against the CCP by the U.S., Britain and Canada and the EU were symbolic in content. He claimed that none of the mutual sanctions moved economic and trade this Time. The essence of the CCP’s relationship with the West is business, and that is the real interest.
He believes that the West is forming an alliance on economic and trade policies with China, which will be a much more ruthless move, and the damage to the CCP will be substantial rather than symbolic.
Hu Xijin advised the CCP authorities to “not easily lead the ideological conflict in the direction of economic and trade” and to “prevent the U.S. from playing the West’s economic and trade war against China through the inertia of the public opinion war sound bites.
In addition, Hu Xijin also declared that whether between China and Europe or between the Chinese Communist Party and the “five-eyed alliance”, is not the mutual cursing? The Chinese do not lose when it comes to their ability to undermine others. He believes that such a “scolding” process will be very long, and does not rule out that it will gradually increase.
According to an outside commentary, Hu Xijin particularly emphasized that the damage to the Chinese Communist Party in the economic and trade war would be substantial, revealing the “lifeline” of the Chinese Communist Party. During his tenure, former U.S. President Donald Trump struck back at the Chinese Communist Party on all fronts, including trade, intellectual property, U.S.-Taiwan relations, religious freedom, propaganda, the United Front, huawei 5G, and other areas, dealing major blows to the Chinese Communist Party, especially the trade war, which plunged the Chinese Communist Party’s economy into unprecedented difficulties. After Biden took office, the CCP was eager to talk with the Biden Administration, hoping that the Biden administration would step back from the Trump position and ease the pressure.
In Europe, the CCP has high hopes for the China-Europe Investment Agreement (CEIA). However, dissatisfied with the Chinese Communist Party’s “counter-sanctions,” the European Union has made a counter-attack against the agreement.
“In light of today’s latest developments in the EU’s relations with China (CCP) and in particular the unacceptable sanctions imposed by the CCP,” said Winkler Gyula, vice chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee, in an email on 22 February, the European Parliament decided to cancel a meeting scheduled for Tuesday on the signing of the China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI). He also said that “the EU is a member of the European Union.
He added that “the EU is about values and principles, both within the EU and globally.”
At a press conference at the CCP Foreign Ministry on the 23rd, in response to questions about whether EU sanctions would affect the CEI, the CCP Foreign Ministry spokesperson again called on the EU to be cooperative and not confrontational.
The CEIBS negotiations took nearly seven years and had been deadlocked for years. At the China-EU summit last September, Xi Jinping personally intervened in the hope of pushing for an agreement. In December of that year, the Chinese Communist Party suddenly made major concessions in a number of key areas that had long been unresolved, such as market access, fair competition and sustainable development, and on December 30, Xi met with EU leaders and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron via video link to announce that they had “completed negotiations on the investment agreement “. At the time, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said it was the “most important agenda” in the current China-EU economic and trade relations.
But the China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI) must still be approved by the European Parliament. Some analysts say Beijing’s rare imposition of sanctions on members of the European Parliament at this critical moment is tantamount to moving a stone to smash its own feet.
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