“Stronger cooperation [with the EU] over the Ukraine war could be very beneficial for an improvement of China’s image in the EU and a promising overture for those, especially in Germany, who are not ready yet to handle at the same time an energy crisis with Russia and a rapid decoupling from the Chinese market.”
Enrico Fardella (ChinaMed Project, T.wai) comments on current China-EU relations in the article “China trip by European Council chief shows tilt away from US hard line, but marked lift in ties unlikely” on the South China Morning Post.
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Prof. Enrico Fardella is Associate Professor of International History and Area Studies at the Department of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Naples "L’Orientale". He is Director of T.wai's ChinaMed Project.
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