Addressing the non-paper against China presented by four EU member countries, Chinese experts suggest the EU not to complain about problems they themselves created. “The paper,” an article in Global Times reads, “claimed that some of the EU’s main trading partners are “imposing new trade barriers or contributing to systemic and structural industrial overcapacity,” without mentioning specific countries by name. However, the FT report noted that EU commissioners regularly accuse China of exporting overcapacity and claimed that trade defense measures are at the highest level in almost 20 years.”
Accusing “certain main trading partners” of creating overcapacity or trade barriers is a classic victimhood narrative that evades the EU’s own responsibility for declining industrial development, Jian Junbo, director of the Center for China-Europe Relations at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times on Monday.”
