EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday urged China to limit the delivery of dual use goods to Russia which end up being used in its war against Ukraine.
“More effort is needed to curtail delivery of dual use goods to Russia that find their way to the battlefield,” she said after talks in Paris with President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron, warning that “this does affect EU-China relations”.
It’s crazy that China expects unrestricted trade with Europe and the United States when they’re propping up Russia who is murdering innocent Europeans, subverting democracy, and doing everything possible to unstabilize the world and create misery. Not to mention that foreign companies are granted no such equivalent market access in China, the intellectual property theft, and market manipulation by the CCP subsidizing everything from materials to shipping.
Can’t blame them for doing this - they’ll benefit from making more money and cripple domestic European and US competition, but it’s insane that Europe and the US sleep walks through it.
How come you can’t blame them?
It’s technically in the best interest of its citizens, albeit at the expense of growing frustration from the rest of the world. Unfortunately frustration doesn’t really matter, only action does.
citizensgovernment.Yep. I feel for all the researchers who won’t be able to collaborate with other researchers in their field simply because their respective governments are shitting on each other.