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David Sassoli to China: Europe is no ‘punching bag’
The European Parliament president vowed to punish Beijing over its recent EU sanctions, but declined to offer specifics.
Europe is not China’s “punching bag,” European Parliament President David Sassoli told POLITICO on Tuesday, vowing retaliation against Beijing a day after it hit the EU with…
- Maïa de La Baume and David M. Herszenhorn
- Politico
But Sassoli declined to say whether that punishment might include spiking an EU-China investment pact, as some MEPs are urging.
The latest EU-China dust-up started on Monday when the EU and several of its allies approved sanctions against four Chinese officials for their role in…