February 19, 2021 Share
While U.S. President Joe Biden has been calling world leaders trying to build an alliance of Western democracies to counter China, Beijing also has been reaching out to the region. Since December, Chinese President Xi Jinping has talked to more than 10 European leaders either by phone or video conference.
By Beijing’s calculation, Washington will never be able to form an effective alliance against China without Europe’s economic and political weight. And Beijing is moving quickly by relying on two of its biggest foreign policy tools: trade and vaccines.
In December, Chinese officials made concessions to the European Union (EU) to secure the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CIA) after seven years of talks. The European Commission called it “the most ambitious agreement that China has ever concluded with a third country.”
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