The European Union should recognise China even more as a competitor and reduce its economic dependency, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday, as the bloc looks to fine-tune relations with Beijing.
"The message from China now is one of competing," he said, as well as China's economic success and desire for influence in Africa, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere.
"Now we are talking about our dependency, vulnerability from Russian gas. We have to avoid creating new ones," he said. The EU paper said Beijing was systematically promoting an "alternative vision of the world order," where economic and social development takes prominence over political and civil rights.
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