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Europe sinks deeper into the economic war on China
Under the nonsensical belief that the US would not pursue its own interests at our expense, Europe is refusing to recognise the newly multipolar world — this will be our own downfall, argues SEVIM DAGDALEN
Shanghai's skyline [Li Yang / Creative Commons]

RELATIONS between the EU and China are at a crossroads. The reception for Chinese Premier Li Qiang and the resumption of German-Chinese intergovernmental consultations in Berlin on June 20 cannot conceal the fact.

On China, as in other matters, Brussels and Berlin seem to be replicating the decisions made in Washington like an echo chamber.

There is no prospect of independent European foreign and trade policy, however much Beijing might long for it. As for readying ourselves for a policy of confrontation with China, the EU even appears to be trying to position itself in the vanguard. Yet there is so much at stake.

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