{"id":121044,"date":"2026-07-02T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:15:18","slug":"chinas-wang-yi-to-test-whether-transatlantic-turmoil-can-soften-europes-nordic-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121044\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Wang Yi to test whether transatlantic turmoil can soften Europe\u2019s Nordic hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Foreign Minister <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/wang-yi?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wang Yi<\/a> kicks off a rare tour of Europe\u2019s Nordic countries on Thursday, as Beijing tests whether it can use shifting geopolitical sands to find openings among some of the bloc\u2019s most China-critical governments.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The veteran diplomat will be in Denmark on Thursday and Friday for a series of meetings with Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and a personal audience with King Frederik.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In Stockholm he will meet Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, before heading to Helsinki to meet Finnish President Alexander Stubb and top diplomat Elina Valtonen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang will round off his whistle-stop tour with a stop in Oslo, to meet Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide on July 8.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The trip comes at a moment of immense flux in global affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Brussels <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3358808\/eu-sets-october-deadline-tangible-results-china-imbalances-after-key-trade-talks?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">set a strict October deadline<\/a> for an improvement in the trade imbalances with China following crunch talks in the Belgian capital. Wang touches down less than a fortnight after the EU\u2019s national leaders opted for a more robust policy towards Beijing, amid fears of an industrial shock to the European economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi kicks off a rare tour of Europe\u2019s Nordic countries on Thursday, as Beijing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[173,210,174,27,26,71,158,57,113,4335,74,59824,156,238,131,132],"class_list":["post-121044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-beijing","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-finland","tag-greenland","tag-helsinki","tag-moscow","tag-nato","tag-nordics","tag-oslo","tag-russia","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116851279595105454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}