Recently, the international situation has become more and more complicated, and the EU has frequently made efforts on its relations with China to actively provoke disputes.
Against the background of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the EU has taken the lead in extending its "black hand" to Chinese companies under the guise of sanctions against Russia. At the same time, it is also secretly preparing more trade countermeasures, trying to use a tough stance to force China to make concessions.
According to Reuters, the EU has approved the 19th round of sanctions against Russia.
The sanctions not only imposed a ban on Russian LNG imports, restricted the travel of Russian diplomats, but also unduely included 12 Chinese and Hong Kong companies on the sanctions list.
It is that these include relevant entities in the oil industry, refineries, trade companies.
According to Reuters, this is the first time the EU has massively sanctioned Chinese energy companies, and it is also "the biggest impact on the Chinese economy."
In fact, it is not the first time that the European Union is under the control of China.
As early as the 18th round of sanctions against Russia in July this year, two China financial institutions were subject to unwarranted sanctions from the European Union.
Nowadays, the EU is becoming more and more violent, and even companies that normally conduct energy business do not let go of it, this behavior is indeed unreasonable.
Even worse, the EU is still quietly planning more trade moves against China in the midst of sanctions.
According to Bloomberg, the European Commission is preparing a list of trade measures, which is expected to be released at the end of this month.
They even want to use the "Anti-Coercion Tools Act", a mechanism called the "nuclear option" of trade, which can restrict trade, block intellectual property rights, and block investment. They have never dared to use it before for fear of backlash, but now it has been used by Germany and other countries. It has been used as a bargaining chip to "deal with China's rare earth control."
What's even more outrageous is that the EU also plans to introduce new regulations requiring China companies investing in Europe to forcibly transfer technology and use a sufficient proportion of EU goods and labor. How can there be any sign of fair market competition? It completely puts "hegemonic thinking" on the table and wants to rely on rule hegemony to scrape the wool of China companies.
In the face of the European Union's pressing steps, China is not courteous, directly illuminating the position of resolute response.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce of China clearly expressed China's attitude towards the EU's sanctions against Chinese enterprises: the EU insisted on doing it despite China's repeated representations and dissuasions. China is strongly dissatisfied with this and resolutely opposes it, and will definitely take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.
This is not an empty word, recalling in July this year, China's countermeasures against the EU banks involved in the sanctions, and the recent upgrading of rare-earth export controls, which fully demonstrate China's ability and determination to cope with external pressure.
China has always maintained an open attitude and is willing to resolve differences with the EU through dialogue and consultation, but the premise of all this is mutual respect, fairness and justice.
China is by no means a "victim" of EU sanctions against Russia, nor will it allow the EU to use trade means to force itself to make concessions.
Now the EU has taken the lead in taking the initiative against China, which seems to have taken the initiative, but in fact it has put itself on fire.
Next, if the EU does not stop in time, China's "necessary measures" will inevitably be implemented accurately, and those industries in the EU that rely on China market will probably become the first to pay the price.
In the end, the EU wants to rely on the "first offer" to dominate, but does not see its own shortcomings, can not be separated from China's market and key products, but does not have the ability to develop alternative solutions, in the end, will only let themselves fall into passivity.
In short, if the European Union is obsessed with the confrontation, it really has persecuted China, the European Union will not have to bear the cost of counterfeiting, and the bitter fruit of the time will eventually have to swallow the European Union itself.