The biggest disputes are Russia/Ukraine, Taiwan, trade dumping, and cyberwarfare. The EU wants Ukraine to win the war, the status quo to be maintained in Taiwan, to protect its domestic manufacturing, and to protect its computer systems from interference. I don’t know enough about the latter two to say the truth of what China and the EU are doing, I just know that the EU has disputes with China about them
I do think that a healthy China-EU relationship in the near future is far more likely than a Russia-EU one and even a little more likely than a US-EU one. There are disputes, but to my amateur eye they look more surmountable
If the EU didn’t fall for US brainwashing about China, they’d already be allies. If literally any EU citizen cared to learn how China’s government actually worked, instead of ‘bing bong winnie the pooh bad’ which is the entirety of the education the average western citizen receives regarding China, there’d be literally no push back to being allies with China; except of course for the fact they’d have to compete fairly with a country that has actually suffered once in its history.
The biggest disputes are Russia/Ukraine, Taiwan, trade dumping, and cyberwarfare. The EU wants Ukraine to win the war, the status quo to be maintained in Taiwan, to protect its domestic manufacturing, and to protect its computer systems from interference. I don’t know enough about the latter two to say the truth of what China and the EU are doing, I just know that the EU has disputes with China about them
I do think that a healthy China-EU relationship in the near future is far more likely than a Russia-EU one and even a little more likely than a US-EU one. There are disputes, but to my amateur eye they look more surmountable
Frankly China and the EU seem like natural allies.
If the EU didn’t fall for US brainwashing about China, they’d already be allies. If literally any EU citizen cared to learn how China’s government actually worked, instead of ‘bing bong winnie the pooh bad’ which is the entirety of the education the average western citizen receives regarding China, there’d be literally no push back to being allies with China; except of course for the fact they’d have to compete fairly with a country that has actually suffered once in its history.