Europe and China were on course for a reset. Coronavirus changed all that
CNNCNN — Before coronavirus brought the world to its knees, 2020 was slated to be a crucial year for the European Union and China. “I think the coronavirus has been a necessary reminder to a lot of EU states that however attractive Chinese money looks, it is also a systemic rival,” says Steven Blockmans, head of EU foreign policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies. Last month, the European External Action Service published a report on disinformation surrounding covid-19, saying that “Official and state-backed sources from various governments, including Russia and – to a lesser extent – China, have continued to widely target conspiracy narratives and disinformation.” Days earlier, Politico Europe published an excerpt from what it said was a draft version, which explicitly accused China of running “a global disinformation campaign to deflect blame for the outbreak of the pandemic and improve its international image.” A spokesperson from the EU’s Foreign Affairs and Security Policy told CNN the document cited by Politico was not in fact a draft report. Over the weekend, the EU’s Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, said in an interview with France’s Le Journal du Dimanche that Europe had been “naïve” in its dealings with China. Velina Tchakarova, head of institute at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy, predicts that “China’s actions during and after the covid-19 would result in further disagreements and fragmentation within the European countries how to settle the relations with Beijing.” She points to disagreements on issues like allowing Chinese firms to build 5G networks and EU-level decisions on who can and cannot invest in member states.
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