BEIJING: Europe shouldn’t be afraid of working with China due to competitors, overseas minister Wang Yi stated at a press briefing on Friday (Nov 24) together with his French counterpart in Beijing.
“China’s place is evident, we are going to adhere to our assist of Europe’s strategic autonomy,” Wang stated when requested about China’s view of its relationship with Europe.
French Overseas Minister Catherine Colonna was visiting the Chinese language capital, and earlier met Premier Li Qiang with whom she mentioned a broad vary of subjects together with rebalancing France’s financial relationship with the world’s second-largest economic system.
China, going through commerce points with the European Union, has additionally been referred to as out for its non-transparent legal guidelines on overseas companies working within the nation.
“We’ll hearken to the voices of European companies, earnestly resolve issues of overseas buyers in China,” Wang stated.
European officers have repeatedly vowed to scale back financial dependence on China in essential sectors.
“After all there will likely be competitors in cooperation, however we shouldn’t be afraid of cooperation due to competitors. The largest danger we have to eliminate is the uncertainty introduced by broad politicisation,” Wang stated, including that the dependency most in want of discount is protectionism.
Wang stated China maintains regular pleasant relations with all nations together with Iran and Russia, in addition to France.
“We consider that so long as China and Europe be a part of arms, there will likely be no camp confrontation, there will likely be no world divisions and there will likely be no new Chilly Battle,” he stated.
Wang additionally stated he hopes to deepen conventional exchanges with France in civil nuclear and aerospace and discover rising areas corresponding to training and scientific analysis.