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Derisk, don’t decouple. Manage the changing relationship with China through diplomacy. Take full account of the more geopolitical, powerful and assertive China but engage frankly with it on respective interests and values. Ukraine will be a determining factor. Such is the emerging European Union policy consensus on China after recent debates in its institutions and member-states. It comes ahead of next week’s visit to Beijing by the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and French president Emmanuel Macron, preceded by that of the Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez this weekend. Chinese commentators note how the Ukraine war may disrupt...
