Stakes for Baerbock’s inaugural China trip have risen, following French president's weak stance on Taiwan. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN - Europe must not turn a blind eye to tensions between China and Taiwan because a military escalation in the region would be a “worst-case scenario” for the global economy, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Thursday.
Speaking during a visit to China, Ms Baerbock backed European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, who took a tougher stance than that recently taken by French President Emmanuel Macron during a joint visit to Beijing, and also called for a de-risking of relations with China. She said Europe needed to maintain a close exchange with Beijing, one of the bloc’s biggest trade partners, but also to draw lessons from“This doesn’t mean decoupling, but it means minimising one’s risks and realising that economic dependencies can also create dangers,” she said.on the US, Ms Baerbock stressed the importance of global security alliances with partners sharing the same values.
Mr Macron bad warned the European Union last week not to get “caught up in crises that are not ours” with regard to Taiwan. “Germany and the European Union are economically vulnerable, which means that we cannot be indifferent to the tensions in the Taiwan Strait,” Ms Baerbock said, in an audio file provided by her ministry during a stopover in the Chinese port of Tianjin.Mr Macron’s comments drew a backlash in the United States and Europe as they were widely perceived as
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