EU to China: Open your public markets or we’ll close ours

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-china-medical-devices-probe-trade-markets/

by Iant-Iaur

37 comments

  1. >”Brussels has a message for Beijing: Open up your public markets to European companies or we’ll simply shut ours.

    >This message was driven home loud and clear Wednesday when the European Commission announced an investigation into China’s public procurement of medical devices, confirming an earlier report by POLITICO.”

  6. Just close the EU market for China, they are not going to cooperate.

  7. We should be trying to detach from Chinese markets, not get even more involved in them.

  12. China will increase tariffs on German cars. Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler will cry on Scholtz lap and Germany will veto any buy European act.

  14. The worst thing is that if China agreed to do this, they would never really implement it. They would let foreign companies bid with a token win here and there but overall it would be artificially kept to a minimum. Then you can’t find out anything because China has zero credibility in the transparency department and recently they have taken it further to class most normal information as national security so there’s all this…

    I think these articles are about ten years too late and china is already planning its next one way thefts in trades

  15. This will fuck over Europe far more than it will china or the us

    Our leaders are idiots so they might actually go through with it

  16. Good! Will Germany consent to this? They were the ones most keen on economic partnerships with authoritarian states (Russia for cheap fossil fuels and China for industrial exports) and their word is the law of the EU. Will they refine their economic model?

  19. Not bad, took them only, what, twenty years? Better late than never, I guess.

  20. Open up markets but no demands about how they produce?
    State sponsoring?
    Forced labour?
    Radio active lakes?
    Co2 emmisions?
    Ststemic internrt attacks?
    Thought control?
    ….
    …

    That’s still not what we want. It not just about morally right but also about a level playing field in economic competition!

  23. China has more to lose from countries buying elsewhere but everyone is afraid of them getting mad so they never have the balls to actually make China do anything meaningful.

  24. Should have done this years ago. Why allow this type of one-way market?

  25. But what products does Europe have to offer that are not sanctioned by the US?

  26. Reminds of early 1800’s when western imperialism forced China through violence to open their markets, import opium etc.. leading to huge civil war (taiping rebellion) and all sorts of wild stuff.. just sayin, this is old news.

  29. Finally – and Chinese companies operating in Europe need to be held accountable… eg airlines

  32. The timing is quite funny

    On one hand we have the USA that says: we are banning TikToc just as you are banning our apps, let’s close ourselves from each other.

    On the other hand we have the EU which is like: let’s open ourselves to each other.

    I know the USA is actually implementing this already and with the EU is just a message but the different approach still remain

  33. Authoritarian/ dictatorships should never have been allowed into the market with democratic countries!

  34. Are you ready to get back to jobs like factory operators redditors? If no shut the fuck up and dont play dumb.

  37. > Brussels has a message for Beijing: Open up your public markets to European companies or we’ll simply shut ours.

    Well, China is not going to do that. We can be pretty certain of that.

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