China & Europe's Relationship is Collapsing: The End of 16+1

Over recent years China and Europe's relationship has been eroding. Despite a good start at the beginning of 2010 things have well and truly gone off the rails. So let's explore what lead to this downfall & what happens next.

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[passais]

I just checked the dictionary and I can confirm: China and Europe certainly are not on the same page.

[samuela-aegisdottir]

The Czech Republic was promised lots of Chinese investment based on its submisive policy towards China. Almost no investment came (promises were not kept) and the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency discovered that Huawei and other Chinese companies are a serious security threat, especially in critical infrastructure. Czech Senate (controled by opposition) and its chairman Jaroslav Kubera did not like the submisive policy of the president and Kubera decided to visit Taiwan. He was intimidated by China and by the Czech president Miloš Zeman and he died on heart attack due to stress. His succesor Miloš Vystrčil was more carefour in the beggining but when he got to know about the intimidation he decided to execute his predecessor's plan. The official visit of Czech Senate Chairman in Taiwan made China very angry. But there were no negative consequences. China and Russia are countries which only understand power. Czech government changed since that and we will have a new president next year, so times are changing to the better. If you show weakness and behave submisive, they look down on you and treat you badly. Showing courrage earns you some respect.

[scottjordan]

I love how all of the former USSR countries recognized what China was trying to be and immediately turned on them. Especially that Taiwan embassy that was opened.

[idraote]

As far as I know, Belt and Road is currently frozen in Italy. We haven't opted out, but we are not implementing anything.
The real problem with China is that you cannot trust them. They might change policy in the blink of an eye with catastrophic patrimonial consequences for the entrepreneurs involved.
There's also a total lack of transparency and the government is ALWAYS favouring local companies over the foreign ones, especially in legal disputes.

[brokkrep]

Were they ever friends? business partners yeah, but the values are just too different.

[prometheus]

A large part of this is possibly attributable to Xi's generally more aggressive foreign policy, in contrast to the more peaceful ones of Mao's successors

[lawrencep]

Another likely factor is the ccp's approach to foreign policy. Whilst acting tough and confrontational might win them favours domestically, it's not gone make then any friends oversees, particularly with nations already wary of China due to its authoritarianism and other issues (think Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, COVID-19, etc).

[TheMetalfreak]

I hope this is a trend, I don't want my country to have friendly relationship with a country I view as extremely authoritarian and harmful towards its own citizen and other countries.
I have always struggled to see how it can be a good idea to be completely dependent on countries with extreme authoritarianism, it only means that we can't take any actions without it having massive consequences, seeing that with the current gas issue from Russia.

[Ehrgeiz]

After the Uygur genocide, oppression of Hongkong or Tibet, the dystopian social control domestically or aggression towards Taiwan or anyone near the Spratley Islands. I really can't say the relation between the 2 should be good anymore.

[hobog]

Too bad the PRC MFR/MFP has again become mostly a propaganda outlet for domestic citizens

[masterchinese]

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia "We've seen enough! We know better!" Meanwhile in Hungary "Why not build a Chinese university in Budapest?"

[Welgeldiguniekalias]

The age of Xi is drawing to a close. Our relationship with China is going to change, but in which direction it will develop, depends mainly on who is going to replace him.

[flyingcookie]

Another major issue with the relationship is that China used the foreign companies for techno stealing and did nothing to prevent or act. In fact event went to unfavor them for its own businesses (to a damaging extent)

[jameswatt]

Europe has it's eyes forced open.

[GalaxyFur]

Here in the US we have been actively moving away from China for many things. Some US companies have already pulled out of China and brought them back to the US. And other things like rare earth's we are working in collaboration with Australia now. And we are also building micro processing plants.

[crimsondynamics]

Lithuania and Taiwan haven't opened embassies as they don't share diplomatic ties.

Taiwan has many missions in countries around the world where but they are mostly cultural, economic, or representative offices.

What China is upset about is that Lithuania allowed usage of Taiwan, not Taipei, in the official name of the mission.

[samuela-aegisdottir]

Dear TLDR, if you don't know how to pronounce Czechia (06:16), use the full name the Czech Republic instead. What you said sounded like Chechnya and that is a completely different state and a very troubled one. The right pronounciation of Czechia is /chekia/. Please, make more effort to clean mistakes from your videos. Thanks.

[hofimastah]

When we realize that making business with dictatorships is not a good idea?

[lostonearth]

5:27
The Funny part is from what information that I found, that was an accident and if China was to calmly tell Lithuania to change the name, they would have done so but because they made threats instead of a request, Lithuania refused to change it.

[neon-kitty]

You know, sometimes having no sponsor segue is better than having a bad one :p.