{"id":1708440,"date":"2022-10-24T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708440"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:33:42","slug":"eu-leaders-harden-position-on-china-move-to-break-technology-dependency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-leaders-harden-position-on-china-move-to-break-technology-dependency\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Leaders Harden Position on China, Move to Break Technology Dependency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feu-leaders-harden-position-on-china-move-to-break-technology-dependency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708440&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Leaders from the European Union jointly expressed trepidation last week about Europe\u2019s increasing economic dependence on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign policy service of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-eu\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/eu-leaders-seek-united-front-china-dependency-2022-10-21\/\">said<\/a> in a prepared statement on Oct. 21 that China\u2019s communist leadership should be considered a competitor that\u2019s promoting \u201can alternative vision of the world order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hardening stance of European leaders against China comes amid increasing concerns that Chinese Communist Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ccp\">CCP<\/a>) leader Xi Jinping is taking the nation in a far more authoritarian direction.<\/p>\n<p>Xi delivered a speech on Oct. 16 in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/goal-is-total-dominance-republican-lawmakers-react-to-xis-speech-taiwan-remarks_4801976.html\">vowed<\/a>\u00a0to never renounce the use of force against Taiwan, which he claims is part of China, and called for greater security measures in China\u2019s already immense state surveillance apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now clinched a precedent-breaking third term in power, cementing his rule in the CCP as second in historical importance only to that of Mao Zedong.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>EU Leaders\u00a0Increasingly Wary of CCP<br \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>EU leaders have grown increasingly wary of the CCP since February, when Xi announced a \u201cno limits\u201d partnership with Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly before the latter ordered the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine has forced many leaders in the EU to be more mindful of their nations\u2019 dependencies, as much of Europe\u2019s gas supply came from Russia. EU leaders now believe that they need to form a united front to prevent a similar circumstance from arising with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the case of China, it is the risk of dependency on technologies and raw materials,\u201d EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the EU learned its lesson from Russia and would work to boost the production capacity of vital technologies and shift supply chains to more trustworthy suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking outside of a meeting in Brussels, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin spoke similarly, saying that the EU would need to ensure that its supply of critical technologies isn\u2019t held hostage by the CCP in the same way that gas had been held hostage by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean there can\u2019t be any economic relations with China, but it means we shouldn\u2019t be building that kind of strategic and critical dependencies in an authoritarian country,\u201d Marin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/eu-shouldnt-be-building-strategic-critical-dependency-regimes-like-china-says-2022-10-21\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cI think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-technology\">technology<\/a> is key here. This might not be an issue today, but it certainly will be in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marin noted that the EU ought to promote stronger cooperation between democratic countries instead.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>CCP Expansion Raises Fears About Port Deals<br \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>EU leaders\u2019 discussion of the strategic problems posed by the CCP follows a push in the German government to reconsider some aspects of its trade relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s ruling coalition government is currently considering whether it will allow the Chinese state-owned company Cosco to take partial control of a port terminal in Hamburg, near the coast of the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The German government is currently divided on the issue, which has become something of a weathervane for how far Germany may be willing to go in order to toughen up against its largest trading partner.<\/p>\n<p>China has acquired a number of deepwater ports in foreign countries as part of its effort to gain control of global shipping routes and increase the reach of its navy. One such port is in the Solomon Islands. Another is in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike those two ports, however, the Hamburg deal wouldn\u2019t result in China owning a majority stake in the entire port.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said the EU\u2019s previous decisions to allow the sale of vital infrastructure to China were \u201cstrategic errors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-andrew-thornebrooke\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Freelancer.jpeg\" alt=\"Andrew Thornebrooke\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrew Thornebrooke is a reporter for The Epoch Times covering China-related issues with a focus on defense, military affairs, and national security. He holds a master&#8217;s in military history from Norwich University.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from the European Union jointly expressed trepidation last week about Europe\u2019s increasing economic dependence on China.The foreign policy service of the EU said in a prepared statement on Oct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}