The EU announced the imposition of tariffs on China's electric vehicles, which is like a bolt from the blue for European countries, especially those countries with close economic and trade ties with China. Recently, German Vice Premier Habak arrived in China at a high speed, hoping to ensure that China Germany relations and economic and trade exchanges will not be affected.
However, no one expected that Habak, who was shouldering important tasks, would be denied access in China. It was revealed that Habak had planned to hold a meeting with the Chinese senior management, but it was cancelled. In this regard, Habak himself also said that he was very confused and did not know the reason.
In China, if foreign guests visit and the meeting plan has been drawn up, it is very rare for temporary changes to occur. In my opinion, the main reason for China's cancellation of the meeting is Habak.
Habak's visit to China was aimed at stabilizing bilateral relations and avoiding a trade war between China and Europe, but Habak's statement was not sincere enough.
[German Vice Premier Habak Visits China]
During this visit to China, Habak mainly talked about three aspects.
First, on the EU tariff issue, Habak tried to excuse the EU.
As a clich é, Habak talked about the so-called "excessive subsidies" and "unfair competition", and claimed that it took 9 months for the EU to carry out relevant investigations before reaching the conclusion of adopting countervailing measures. He also said that this was not a "punitive tariff" and compared it with the punitive tariff of the United States and other countries.
Habak's goal is to hope that China can stop its counter measures.
Not long ago, China just announced an anti-dumping investigation on pork and products in the EU, which attracted great attention within the EU. The EU has made great efforts to protect and subsidize agriculture. EU farmers can make money by high subsidies. China's investigation of EU pork and other agricultural products is bound to affect EU agricultural exports.
Moreover, not only agricultural products, the EU is also very worried that China will start to use large displacement cars. According to the deep trade between China and the EU, once China opposes the EU from multiple fields, it will have a big impact on the EU.
However, one of the biggest shortcomings of Habak's above statement is that he did not take China's interests into account. As for how to solve the tariff problem, China has made it clear in the meeting that if the EU is really sincere, China supports and hopes to negotiate as soon as possible, and if the EU is determined, China will not hesitate to counter.
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Secondly, Habak once again hyped China's aid to Russia and asked China to stop providing assistance to Russia.
Habak believed that China not only has close relations with Russia, but also provided assistance to Russia in the Russian Ukrainian conflict, which led to the current situation between Russia and Ukraine seriously threatening the security interests of Europe and Germany, and asked China to stand together with European countries. He also warned that if China continued to trade with Russia, it would worsen China EU relations.
The so-called China's assistance to Russia is nothing more than the collective smear of China by the Western group led by the United States in an attempt to prevent normal economic and trade exchanges between China and Russia, thereby limiting the economic development of the two countries. On the other hand, the United States and the West also want to further cut off Russia's development path, so that Russia will fall into a disadvantage in the Russian Ukrainian conflict.
It is undeniable that because of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Germany and other countries that have lost Russian energy have suffered a lot, even involving the development of national economy. But, When Habak proposed to China the so-called "stop aiding Uzbekistan", he not only slandered China, but also blamed China for the impact of the Russian Ukrainian conflict on Germany.
[German Chancellor Schultz Visits China]
Finally, Habak called on China to reduce or even give up coal-fired power generation, which seems to be a good thing, but in fact it is not.
Although it is holding the banner of climate protection, the current reality is that Germany and other European countries are recovering and expanding the use of thermal power plants without a large amount of Russian energy supply. In this context, Habek has shifted the responsibility for energy conservation and emission reduction to China. Is it really to cope with climate change?
Originally, a visit to China was a good opportunity for in-depth exchanges with the Chinese side. However, it is clear that Habak did not seize this opportunity from his words and deeds. He hoped that China could provide help and even make some compromises, but he showed a "high above" attitude and wanted to teach China to do things. It is also reasonable for China to cancel the important meeting temporarily.
In addition, Habak's visit to China has actually met with many senior officials in different fields, and China has also put forward its own position and attitude.
Many important officials, such as the Director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, the Minister of Commerce, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, held talks with Habak, and had in-depth exchanges with the European Union on issues such as the imposition of tariffs on China on the cooperation between China and Germany in the fields of climate change, energy transformation, etc.
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under these circumstances, The fact that China cancels the meeting between Habak and the high-level officials has little impact on the actual dialogue between the two countries. Because during the talks with Habek, the ministers have made China's position, attitude and demands clear. If Germany wants to deepen cooperation with China, it must show correct attitude and sincerity. Only by respecting each other and seeking common ground while reserving differences, there will be fewer obstacles to cooperation between the two countries.
Of course, compared with other European countries, Germany is one of the more rational countries. Its Prime Minister Schultz has always opposed the European Union to impose tariffs on China's electric vehicles. Before that, he also vigorously rejected the public opinion and opened the Hamburg Port to China to allow Chinese enterprises to participate in the shares. Therefore, for Germany, we still focus on active cooperation, but at the same time, it will also be accompanied by a bit of beating, so that China Germany cooperation will move towards the right path and become a model of China EU cooperation.
