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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank all those who have voiced their opinions during this debate. Ultimately, they have allowed us to hear the concerns of European citizens. Europeans are concerned about China’s considerable influence in the global economy, its seemingly endless supply of low cost labour, the irresistible attraction it represents for investors and the risk it poses for the delocalisation of production, and rightly so. It is essential that we recognise this here in Parliament.
It is therefore important that we act, obviously not by closing borders but by showing what a heavyweight we really are, namely, the primary economic power in the world that is entering into dialogue with China as an equal, not reluctantly but with confidence and conviction, in order to find a balanced approach, means for reciprocity and conditions for fair competition.
We need a new partnership with China that will facilitate a return to growth for Europe in the future and, in addition, economic development in China, with the view that this will help to advance freedoms in China.
We must therefore demand a great deal from China. We must speak with a single voice in our dealings with China in order to achieve balanced trade relations. Yet I think that we Europeans have our fair share of work to do. We must have a European strategy, particularly for production, for reindustrialisation and for research and innovation.
The United States has a strategy. They protect, Commissioner, entire swathes of their economy. China has a strategy. I am calling for the European Union to have a strategy too, not simply a defensive one but an offensive strategy aimed at moving forwards, one demanding fairer relations and, at the same time, working in our own territory on production, on wealth creation and protecting whole sectors for economic development, mirroring what giants such as the United States are doing.
I hope, Commissioner, that you will defend these opinions in the coming days."@en1
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