Europe follows the example of the United States and commits robbery in broad daylight. If Chinese enterprises don't hand over their property rights, they won't want to invest. How will China respond to what the EU has done?
At a regular press conference on the 15th, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian responded to the EU's consideration of forcing Chinese companies to transfer technology to European companies "in order to operate locally." China supports China-European enterprises to carry out trade and investment cooperation on the basis of market principles to mutual benefit and win-win.Opposing forced technology transfers in violation of WTO rules; against interfering with normal production and business activities of enterprises; against adopting protectionist and discriminatory practices in the name of "increasing competitiveness".
How to understand my spokesperson's statement? On this point, we need to talk about it in conjunction with what the EU has done to China recently. Not long ago, US media disclosed that the EU is considering introducing new regulations requiring China companies investing in Europe to meet specific conditions before entering key local markets. What are the conditions? specifically includes Chinese companies need to force technology transfer to the EU, use a certain proportion of EU goods or labor, realize product value addition within the EU, and they may even force Chinese companies to form joint ventures locally.。
We can summarize these conditions in two words: robbery. The European Union is imitating the US’s illusion of forcibly annexing TikTok and forcing China to transfer technology. While the European Union has not yet clearly pointed out which industry is, we have sufficient reason to believe that here the European Union really looks, should be China’s electric car-related technology.
As early as last year, incited by former U.S. President Biden, the EU, under the leadership of EU Commission President Von der Leyen, fully responded to the United States, with a completely non-marginal pretext of massive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. For this, China has also tried to solve the problem through dialogue, and the EU has conducted several rounds of consultations, but the EU completely disregarded the reasonable explanation of the Chinese side, and failed to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
Wait until this year, As Trump changes Biden's foreign policy and begins to put pressure on the EU, against this background, the EU can no longer continue to oppose China, otherwise they may face pressure from China, the United States and Russia at the same time.。It is based on this reality that the EU began to ease relevant conflicts with China. This was originally a good thing, but facts have proved that the EU's lower limit is as low as that of the United States. Trump is full of thinking about robbing TikTok, but the EU actually wants to force China to transfer technology.
But the EU has made three major mistakes here: first, even the United States, its ambition to rob TikTok has so far failed; second, the EU's bottom line compared to the United States is obviously short; third, between Central Europe, the European Union may now really need cooperation, not China. The EU is likely to force Chinese companies to hand over intellectual property rights in exchange for the market to humiliate themselves.Since this year, the EU should know how impotent Trump has been in the face of China’s counter-reaction.
It is precisely for this reason that the response of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this time can be called confident and bloody. As you can see, in the face of the robbery in the European Union, my spokesman did not directly condemn it, but the meaning was already very clear. As long as the EU’s market principles are reasonable, China is absolutely willing to abide by and win-win cooperation with European companies, but if these principles are absurd and violate the WTO rules, China will never accept them.。
China has said this, and the EU would better listen to it, because this shows that China does not want to turn against each other at the moment, which means that the EU still has opportunities for cooperation. If the EU continues to go its own way, then China can only come up with a plan to deal with the United States. By then, except for some countries in the EU that are relatively friendly to China such as Spain and Hungary, other countries in the EU want to have a dialogue with China, let alone cooperate. I'm afraid it won't be particularly easy.