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"Mr President, I would like to thank Ms de Sarnez for an excellent report, which addresses all the most important problems related to trade and economic relations with China, such as the difficulties with investing in the Chinese market, the problems with accessing Chinese public procurement, the question of the protection of intellectual property and the question of the value of the yuan, to name but a few.
However, economic matters are not the only problem in EU-China relations. There is a huge imbalance in our relations – on the one hand, we have European firms operating in accordance with the principle of maximising profit, transferring their production to China or exporting to China or importing from China, and, on the other, we are dealing with a perfectly organised operation, directed in large measure for political purposes by a very strong Chinese State which has recently become much stronger and is operating on a worldwide scale. The Chinese are working extremely well, trading and investing in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. The problem is that we have to answer a question which is not just about economics today, but also about politics: what are the consequences of this? It is clear to see – previous speakers have already made this point – that the Chinese do not always conform to the rules of international trade or to those standards which we would like to be universal. There is a great need for the European Union to concentrate its efforts and present a single position to China (and it does have the instruments to do this) so that the standards which are most important to us are respected by the Chinese, not just in relations with the European Union, but also in the context of investments in other parts of the world."@en1
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