{"id":426850,"date":"2024-12-03T05:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426850"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"German-FM-urges-China-to-stop-backing-Russia-work-for-Ukraine-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/German-FM-urges-China-to-stop-backing-Russia-work-for-Ukraine-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"German FM urges China to stop backing Russia, work for Ukraine peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Monday warned her Chinese counterpart that Beijing’s support for Moscow would impact ties and instead urged China to help end the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Beijing, she said the over 1,000-day war was impacting the whole world and condemned the battlefield role of North Korean troops and the use of Chinese-made drones in the conflict.<\/p>\n

Baerbock urged an international peace process for Ukraine and said “that is why I am here in China today”, adding that every permanent member of the UN Security Council had a “responsibility for peace and security in the world”.<\/p>\n

“The Russian president is not only destroying our European peace order through his war against Ukraine, but is now dragging Asia into it via North Korea,” she told a press briefing.<\/p>\n

“My Chinese counterpart and I have therefore discussed in depth that this cannot be in China’s interest either.”<\/p>\n

Germany’s top diplomat met with her counterpart Wang Yi for a “strategic dialogue” as Berlin seeks to build better ties with China while engaging on key differences.<\/p>\n

Wang told his German counterpart that, “as the world’s second- and third-largest economies” China and Germany must improve ties “as great powers in a turbulent international situation”.<\/p>\n

On the day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a surprise visit to war-torn Ukraine, Baerbock stressed that “in order to protect our own German and European security, we must now support Ukraine”.<\/p>\n

“And it is just as important to enter into a peace process together in the world, and that is why I am here in China today,” she said.<\/p>\n

– Chinese drone worries –<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

China presents itself as a neutral party in the Ukraine war and says it is not sending lethal assistance to either side, unlike the United States and other Western nations.<\/p>\n

But it remains a close political and economic ally of Russia, and NATO members have branded Beijing a “decisive enabler” of the war, which it has never condemned.<\/p>\n

“Drones from Chinese factories and North Korean troops attacking the peace in the middle of Europe are violating our core European security interests,” Baerbock said.<\/p>\n

She said she had “advocated a just peace process here in Beijing today, precisely because we come from different perspectives and roles”.<\/p>\n

Baerbock had earlier told Wang that “increasing Chinese support for Russia’s war against Ukraine has an impact on our relations,” according to a readout by the German foreign ministry.<\/p>\n

“Core German and European security interests are affected,” she said.<\/p>\n

Baerbock also discussed crucial trade ties between Europe’s biggest economy and China, which has long been a key market for German automakers and other industrial giants.<\/p>\n

She urged Chinese authorities to “engage constructively” with the European Union over tariffs levied on Chinese electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

“A level playing field, fair competition and reciprocal market conditions are essential,” she said, according to her spokesperson.<\/p>\n

At the press briefing, she added that as “highly subsidised electric cars are now flooding the European market, we have to react to that”.<\/p>\n

The EU at the end of October imposed extra tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars, after an anti-subsidy probe concluded Beijing’s state support was unfairly undercutting European automakers.<\/p>\n

Germany, whose big auto makers including Volkswagen are facing falling profits and are weighing lay-offs, had in Brussels opposed the EU tariffs and called for continued dialogue with China.<\/p>\n

Wang said that “the EU’s imposition of high anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles violates the principles of fair competition and free trade,” according to a readout of the meeting published by China’s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n

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Annalena Baerbock addressed journalists after meeting China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday<\/p>\n

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