Leaders from the European Union jointly expressed trepidation this week about Europe’s increasing economic dependence on China.
The foreign policy service of the EU said in a prepared statement that China’s communist leadership should be considered a competitor promoting “an alternative vision of the world order.”
The hardening stance of European leaders against China comes amid increasing concerns that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping is taking the nation in a far more authoritarian direction.
Xi delivered a speech on Oct. 16 in which he vowed never to renounce the use of force against Taiwan, which he claims is part of China, and called for greater security measures in China’s already immense state surveillance apparatus….