Helga Zepp-LaRouche was interviewed today by China Radio International (CRI) on the recently completed EU-China Investment Treaty. She noted that the treaty was “extremely beneficial to the larger companies”, but said it needed to be extended also to small- and medium-sized enterprises. The fact that Macron was at the press conference announcing the agreement, she felt, was significant, since he had not been involved in the direct negotiations. “And not one EU ambassador was against it,” she said. “Therefore, the prospects for the final signing are good.” “This is a major breakthrough for the world,” she said.
When asked by the moderator what she thought about Macron’s saying that he would visit China soon. “Will this mean stronger EU-China ties,” she was asked. “I hope so,” replied Helga. “The world is faced with great challenges. I hope that European leaders will turn to Leibniz.” Leibniz had said that the two positive forces lay at each end of the continent, she explained, referring to Europe and China. “Europe should be more favorable to the BRI. This would also involve promoting the development of the developing countries… China and the European countries should help develop Africa. I hope this will open relations for the two. The Europeans should turn to Leibniz.”
And what about U.S. objections? she was asked. “These are purely ideological and motivated by geopolitics,” she said. “There is an hysterical anti-China campaign in the U.S… China [is] coming back as one of the most important countries in the world, people should be happy about this!” She also noted that the anti-China attitude is not shared by many U.S. companies nor by many U.S. governors, indicating that the campaign was not entirely successful in the U.S. itself.
Will the US-EU relationship now be changing with more independent moves by the Europeans? the moderator asked. “There is a general tendency now to assert national sovereignty. But we need a new paradigm in international relations and an end to geopolitics.” She noted that President Xi’s call for a “community of shared interest for humanity” was a good example of such a paradigm. “If we don’t work together, we are doomed together,” she said. “We are now at a branching point.”
Will this lead to an EU-China Free Trade Agreement? the moderator asked. “What we need is a new world order,” Helga said. She gave the figures for famine in Africa this year. “We need a crash program to overcome this situation. We have to move for a different design based on the common good and not profit.” We have to move away from the motivation based on profit, she emphasized.
