Activities of Radosław SIKORSKI related to 2023/2127(INI)
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REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning EU-China relations
Amendments (29)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the security and defence implications of Chinese influence on critical infrastructure in the European Union,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas China is simultaneously a partner and also increasingly a competitor and systemic rival to the EU; whereas the EU’s fundamental approach to China should be to cooperate where possible, compete where needed, and confront where necessary; whereas China is rapidly becoming the dominant regional and global power; whereas this has fundamental implications for the EU’s role in the global economy; whereas global instability, especially in the Asia- Pacific region, has direct implications for the EU’s security and economic interests; whereas a common EU policy towards China will determine the EU’s future in global affairs;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell will visit China in the framework of the EU-China Strategic Dialogue; whereas Executive Vice- President of the Commission Valdis Dombrovskis and Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, visited China to discuss issues of mutual interest; whereas rebalancing the EU–China economic and trade relationship and market access and supply chain issues were discussed;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Chinese Communist Party does not share the same values as European democracies, has become increasingly authoritarian and promotes governance models internationally that contradict the EU’s values; whereas systems of social scoring are not in line with the EU’s fundamental values;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas China is changing and moving into a new era of security and control characterised by an increasingly assertive economic and foreign policy, attemptemploying grey zone activities including military exercises, economic coercion, cyber warfare and information manipulation and seeks to change the international rules- based order, and employs increasingly oppressive domestic policies;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China revised its Maritime Traffic Laws (Maritime Traffic Laws Revision-2021), which are being enforced since 1 September 2021; whereas this unilateral effort to control contested areas of the South China and East China Seas is not acceptable; whereas the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources’ published its so-called ‘standard map’; whereas such claims do not have any basis in international law; whereas China’s renaming of Russian locations on its ‘standard map’ is noted; whereas this would be a first step to undoing unequal colonial treaties in the region;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the EU can only credibly defend its interests and values against an increasingly assertive China if it acts with a single, united approach; whereas Article 24 of the Treaty on the European Union, notes that the “Member States shall support the Union's external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity”, and that they “shall refrain from any action which is contrary to the interests of the Union or likely to impair its effectiveness as a cohesive force in international relations”; whereas the activities of some Member States, which may run counter to the provisions of Article 24 TEU, are of concern;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EU must not accept critical political or military support by Chinashould condemn China’s support for Russia’s illegal war of aggression inagainst Ukraine or for any circumven; whereas China plays a role in the circumvention and mitigation of EU sanctions imposed following Russia’s illegal invasion; whereas the Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development was signed on 4 February 2022, just before the start of the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine; whereas the manner in which China engages Russia will also shape the future of EU-China relations;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the UN General Assembly in its resolution of 23 February 2023 called for ending the war in Ukraine and demanded Russia’s immediate withdrawal from Ukraine in line with the UN Charter; whereas China abstained on the vote on this resolution; whereas China voted in favour of a United Nations resolution that explicitly acknowledges "the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine” on 26 April 2023;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the European Chips Act has been adopted, which will increase the EU’s ability to produce semiconductors and create a strategic map of, inter alia, capability gaps in the semiconductor value chain in the EU, thereby limiting the EU’s dependence on third countries such as China; calls for further proposals to secure the production and supply chains of critical infrastructure and material within the EU;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas Commission President von der Leyen outlined measures on de- risking the EU’s economy in her speech on the EU’s State of the Union; whereas China has enacted export restrictions on gallium and germanium; whereas the Commission has launched an anti-subsidy investigation into electric vehicles coming from China;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the EU must not accept any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, particularly by force, nor and through Chinese grey zone activities via its military-civil fusion (MCF) strategy; whereas the EU must also not accept ongoing human rights violations within China, in particular in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) continue engaging with China to tackle global challenges such as climate change and loss of biodiversity, challenges to human health and pandemic preparedness, debt relief and humanitarian assistance, and increase dialogue with China on security issues in view of China’s increasingly critical role in global security;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) call on China to uphold the rules- based international order, especially the principles of the UN Charter, including respect for the territorial integrity or political independence of all states; the EEAS and the EU Member States should work with China and the EU’s regional partners to ensure freedom of navigation and open and unrestricted shipping lanes; EU Member States could explore forms of cooperation, including military cooperation, with regional and global partners to ensure freedom of navigation in the South China and East China Seas and deter any attempts at limiting freedom of navigation; the EEAS, together with EU Member States, should reject China’s unlawful and unreasonable claims in the South China and East China Seas and any unilateral attempts at controlling contested areas and territories;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) maintain diplomatic stability while increasing the EU’s assertiveness towards China in order to assume its responsibility as a member of the UN Security Council to pressure Russia into stopping its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine; the EEAS and EU Member States should continue to engage with China with the aim of reducing China’s support to Russia; the EEAS and the EU Member States should remind China of its own stated aim at playing a constructive role in ending Russia’s illegal aggression against Ukraine;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) reiterate that China, as the world’s largest carbon emitter, must commit to peak its CO2 emissions before 2030 in line with the Paris Agreement and its own promises; the EU Member States must work with China to bring their mutual policies into line with their international commitments and stress that joint efforts with global partners are needed to tackle a global problem;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) ensure that China plays a constructive role in multilateral organisations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations and support steps towards allowing Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the meetings, mechanism and activities of relevant international institutions such as the WHO, the International Civil Aviation Organization and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, whilst remaining in line with the EU’s ‘One China Policy’;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) respond adequately to China’sto China’s increasing efforts to build alternative international organisations, the aim of which is to change the multilateral rules-based order, including through the BRICS group of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), by ensuring better coordination among the EU Member States and intensifying partnerships with like-mindedand engagement with partners around the world;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) work with like-minded partners to ensure a global, open, free, stable and secure cyberspace, and continue to counter malicious behaviour by enhancing cyber security; engage with China to limit its hostile cyberespionage activities against EU Member States;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) insist that China fulfils its responsibilities and commitments as a global power by upholding human rights and the rule of law; the EEAS and EU Member States should address China’s increasing human rights relativism and efforts to undermine the current rules- based order and using its influence in multilateral organisations to alter the paradigm on fundamental human rights;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) address individual cases of European citizens being held in ‘administrative detention’imprisoned in China, such as the Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai, and use all diplomatic channels to pressure for their release;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) identify and close down any avenues that currently facilitate transnational repression effortscampaigns, including through digital means, by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including in the European Union and in particular those targeting diaspora communities, for example through informal police stations, in cooperation and coordination with like-minded partners;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) reviewuphold the autonomous status of Hong Kong in the light of the National Security Law and the PRC’s violation of its international commitments, its breaches of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ‘one country, two systems’ principle, and the crackdown on Hong Kong’s autonomy and opposition figures, including members of civil society; work towards ensuring media freedom in Hong Kong, which is under threat following the imposition of the National Security Law;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
(oa) ensure that the UK and like- minded partners join the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) with a view to working together on international standard setting and other efforts in the realm of the TTC; the EU and like- minded partners should work together on international standard setting in relevant international bodies to ensure economic competitiveness;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) strengthen the EU’s economic autonomy, ensure mutually beneficial economic relations and prevent sensitive technologies from being used for military purposes by de-risking trade flows and reducing critical dependencies on the PRC without aiming to decouple or turning inwards; support President von der Leyen’s stated goal of de-risking with a view to reinforcing the EU’s strategic autonomy; address Chinese export restrictions of specific materials and one- sided dependencies on China by diversifying the EU’s import sources, whilst maintaining a trading base with China;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) swiftly implement, in this context, the European Economic Security Strategy and make better use of our existing trade instruments to minimise the detrimental effects of de-risking on the European economy and to ensure close alignment with like-minded partners around the world, such as our transatlantic partners and partners in Southeast Asia;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t
Paragraph 1 – point t
(t) ensure greater coordination and cooperation with like-minded partners on issues of common concern, especially but not exclusively on issues such as strategic dependencies, economic coercion, political interference and disinformation, and to promote rules-based multilateralism and strategic solidarity between democracies; work with China to ensure EU companies’ fair an equal access to Chinese markets, data protection, and abolish forced technology transfers of companies wishing to operate in the Chinese market;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) revisituphold the EU’s engagement policy with Taiwan and continue supporting democracy there together with like-minded partners; encourage further exchanges between Parliament and its Taiwanese counterparts in this context;
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) establish a ‘Far-East StratCom Task Force’ as part of the European External Action Service, to be tasked with identifying, monitoring and countering disinformation efforts and nation-specific actions by China; such a Task Force should be allocated with sufficient resources to be able to exercise its mandate, given the scale of the problem and its detrimental effects on the EU and its Member States’ political systems; work with the Commission to encourage and coordinate actions aimed at countering China’s foreign financing of our democratic processes, including the strategy of elite capture and the technique of co-opting top-level civil servants and former EU politicians;