
The politics of Xi meeting Putin; the EU targets China on forced labour, rare earths and influence
About Asia
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The EU's Rhetoric on Democrats Versus Autocrats Is a Bit Shallow.
The european union is trying to decople itself from russian energy. But i think a lot of people grow weary of this rhetoric about democrats versus autocrats whenever it doesn't really go much further than the rhetoric. Yes, there is more suspicion towards, for example, china, because, you know, we see, in usbestan to day, putin and she we'll have a meeting. There's some grandfathering clause with w t o rules that would be against forced labor. Nor does the europeanunion really want to rob china too much up the wrong way. They don't want to just speak on petchina as if they're being
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