{"id":70627,"date":"2026-04-28T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/70627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:57:10","slug":"beijing-lashes-out-at-eu-after-chinese-firms-included-in-latest-russia-sanctions-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/70627\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing lashes out at EU after Chinese firms included in latest Russia sanctions \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU\u2019s 20th sanctions package<\/a>, approved last week after Hungary and Slovakia dropped their veto, targets another 20 Russian banks, cutting them off from euro transactions and business in the bloc. The breakthrough on the sanctions<\/a> came after a dispute over the Druzhba oil pipeline \u2014 which carries Russian crude via Ukraine to Central Europe \u2014 was resolved<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The package also targets banks and companies in third countries<\/a>, including China, as part of a broader push to shut down back channels used to support Russia\u2019s war economy, with a strong focus on anti-circumvention measures<\/a> across trade, energy and financial networks.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron warned<\/a> on Friday that Europe is now under pressure from the United States, China and Russia at the same time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not underestimate that this is a unique moment where a U.S. president, a Russian president, a Chinese president are dead against the Europeans,\u201d Macron said, speaking alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens. The French leader called on the EU to \u201cwake up\u201d and defend its own interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s 20th sanctions package, approved last week after Hungary and Slovakia dropped their veto, targets another 20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[6020,211,210,174,4740,229,230,4007,234,3039,24931,823,15265,238,15077,4581,627,240,241],"class_list":["post-70627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-banks","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-companies","tag-defense","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-finance","tag-france","tag-hungary","tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","tag-oil","tag-pipelines","tag-russia","tag-russia-sanctions","tag-sanctions","tag-slovakia","tag-trade","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116485046222563636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70627","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=70627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}