49 Amendments of Miriam LEXMANN related to 2021/2037(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
— having in regard to the Council Conclusions on Hong Kong of 28 July 2020;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas through its strong economic growth and ambitiousssertive foreign policy agenda, China is asserting a stronger global role both as an economic power and as foreign policy actorled by the Communist Party (CCP) is exerting its malign influence globally, which poses serious political, economic, security and technological challenges to the EU, has significant consequences for the world order and poses threats to liberalfreedom and democracy;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas China has athe Chinese Communist Party is a totalitarian regime with a long track record of gross human rights violations and suppression of human dignity that eschew the country’s bilateral and multilateral commitments in these areas;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the existing EU China Strategy has revealed its limitations in the light of recent developments and the challenges posed by Chinathe actions of the Chinese Communist Party at home and abroad;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) elaborate a more assertive, comprehensive and consistent EU- China strategy that unites all Member States and shapes relations with Beijing in the interest of the EU as a whole, while defending our values and promoting a rules-based multilateral order;
Amendment 90 #
1) Open and frank dialogue on global challenges;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point 3
Paragraph 1 – point b – point 3
3) Analysis of the threatand identification of the threats, vulnerabilities and challenges;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point 5
Paragraph 1 – point b – point 5
5) Fostering open strategic autonomyEnsuring consistent implementation of EU foreign policy priorities in line with EU values and interests;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the VP/HR to ensure that the new EU-China strategy involves China in an open but frank dialogue on global challenges, such as climate change and the fight against global pandemics, as well as those resulting from the Chinese Communist Party's malign activities at home and abroad;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports greater dialogue and cooperation with China on peace and security, sustainable development, science, technology and innovation, environmental issues, space and aerospace; notes, however, that such dialogue and cooperation are only possible if China is willing to uphold its international obligations;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underscores the importance of capitalisingensuring the implementation onf China’s commitment to tackling climate change by reinforcing partnership in this field and emphasises the need to ensure that China commits to peak its emissions before 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement by implementing a carbon border adjustment mechanism; stresses, however, that over the past three decades China has tripled its carbon emissions and it is now emitting 27% of the world's greenhouse gases, making efforts to address greenhouse emissions largely insufficient without clear commitments and implementation by China;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for Human Rights Dialogues to be held regularly and calls for aDeplores Chinese officials' dismissive attitude to the Human Rights Dialogues; calls for more regular meetings and solid benchmarking of the progress made in bilateral dialogues more generally; notes that, should the Chinese side continue to ignore the Human Rights Dialogue, the EU should downgrade and limit other sectoral bilateral dialogues, including trade;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Deplores the growing religious persecution in China; welcomes the appointment of a new EU Special Envoy for the Freedom of Religion or Belief Outside the Union, and calls for the new Special Envoy to be actively involved in supporting the plight of all religious groups and entities, including Muslims, Christians and Buddhists, facing persecution in mainland China and Hong Kong;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EU to engage in dialogue with China on possible ways to ensure better global preparedness to respond to pandemics; calls further on China to cooperate fully inallow an independent investigation into the origins and spread of COVID;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to use the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) as a leverage instrument to improve the protection of human rights and support for civil society in Chinapeople in mainland China and Hong Kong;
Amendment 195 #
(a) having a timetable for China’s ratification and implementation of key International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions on labour rights and a robust monitoring mechanism, as well as concrete measures or steps towards putting an end to other human rights violations against the Uyghur minority in China, Tibetans, pro-democracy political leaders and activists in Hong Kong, and other groups and individuals facing repressions by the regime;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 8 – point a a (new)
(a a) The release of all political prisoners or prisoners of conscience held in mainland China and Hong Kong, including citizens of EU Member States and third country nationals;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point c
Paragraph 8 – point c
(c) lifting the counter-sanctions imposed by the Chinese Government on EU and national entities and individuals;
Amendment 233 #
9. States its support for UN to carry out legal investigations into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity taking place in the Xinjiang region and into forced labour programmes in Tibet;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the introduction of a unilateral ban on the import of cotton and other products from forced labour and child labour or any other form of modern slavery; further calls on European companies in China, as part of their corporate responsibility, to under-take a thorough investigation into use of forced labour in their supply chains
Amendment 243 #
10 a. Deplores the coercive campaign against H&M, Nike and other companies seeking to uphold their corporate responsibility and expressed their concerns over forced labour in cotton production in Xinjiang;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to put forward the proposed Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Framework as a matter of urgency and for European companies to ensure their corporate responsibility;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that the future EU strategy on China should provide the necessary tools and data to analyseanalyse and address the political, economic, social and technological threats stemming from China, its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and 17+1 policies, its investment strategy and their implications for the Union’s strategic autonomy and the liberal orderfreedom and democracy worldwide; notes that there is an urgent need to ensure political will and resources for the implementation of the EU's Connectivity Strategy; calls for greater coordination between the EU's Connectivity Strategy and the Blue Dot Network in order to provide a sustainable alternative to the Belt and Road Initiative; further calls on the EU and the US to develop a joint strategy to address China's malign investments in third countries and regions, including the Western Balkans, eastern neighbourhood, Latin America and Africa;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to commission an EU-wide audit of the EU dependency on China in certain strategically important and critical sectors, including pharmaceutical supplies, setting out plans to reduce dependency through off-shoring and near-shoring of industry, while maintaining overall trade relations with China, which should be as open as possible; ;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – introductory part
Paragraph 14 – introductory part
14. Calls on the Commission and the Council to elaborate mechanisms to address these threats coherently, in particular by:
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point a
Paragraph 14 – point a
(a) preservstrengthening the EU’s unity;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point b
Paragraph 14 – point b
(b) building on the EU toolbox for national risk-mitigating measures, tosuch as developing joint standards for the new generation of technologies, such as 5G and 6G networks, and ensuring that companies that do not fulfil security standards are excluded from 5G and 6G network development;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point c
Paragraph 14 – point c
(c) strengthening the EU’s unique brand of responsible global leadershipcooperation with democratic countries around the world, in particular the United States;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point d
Paragraph 14 – point d
(d) ensuring that the President of the Commission is present at the BRI annual forum, and to cooperate with Member States, to ensure that the decisions taken by EU Member States involved in the BRI initiative are in line with EU policies and interests;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point e
Paragraph 14 – point e
(e) examining all infrastructure contracts to ensure their conformity with EU legislationand national legislation; in particular, stresses the need to protect critical infrastructure from malign influence of China and other authoritarian regimes;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that the future EU-China strategy should be more coordinated between the EU institutions and the Member States, as well as between the different Commission Directorates General in order to ensure a comprehensive and consistent policy that avoids compartmentalisation of separate policy areas, such as human rights, trade and investment, and assures consistency with EU values;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Encourages the EU to work with all Member States which do not have adequate investment screening mechanisms to urgently bring forward such legislation as a precondition of the ratification of the EU- China CAI, in line with the EU Framework for Screening of Foreign Direct Investment, and calls for Member States to be issued with special guidance on screening investments and acquisitions from Chinese firms under the influence of the Chinese state;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the Commission to undertake an assessment of the extent of European investment, including pension funds, going to companies in China who are complicit in human rights abuses;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. Calls on the Commission to develop mechanisms to address intellectual property theft; notes that those foreign companies refusing to pay licensing fees for the use of patented technologies should be subject to import controls or bans and other measures to protect European companies; notes that intellectual property theft from Chinese companies poses a serious threat to European companies' competitiveness and citizens' jobs;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Is concerned by the assertive and, at times, aggressive diplomatic pressure from the Chinese authorities; underlines that EU institutions can in no way bow to pressure or censorship from Chinese channels; further calls on EU institutions and agencies to engage in a thorough due diligence process to ensure that technologies of those companies engaged in surveillance and repressions in Xinjiang and across mainland China and Hong Kong are removed from all buildings and facilities owned or rented by EU institutions and agencies, and to prohibit all further purchases of products made by such companies; further calls on EU institutions and agencies to conduct a thorough review of their security and cyber resilience policies and instruments;
Amendment 365 #
19. Calls on the VP/HR to coordinate the Union’s actions with like-minded partners on the protection of human rights and support for civil society in Chinapeople in China and Hong Kong and for Chinese diaspora around the world, as well as the defence of liberalfreedom and democracy in the world, notably in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and with a view to engaging China to respect international law, the freedom of navigation and the peaceful resolution of disputes;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers it necessary for the EU to promote a balanced and prosperous transatlantic relationship with the Biden Administration, in order to maintain and demonstrate the united strength of global liberal democracies in multilateral organisations; of primary importance for the EU to develop and promote an ambitious and dynamic transatlantic agenda, as a key cornerstone for strengthened cooperation among democratic countries around the world; cals for the EU-US Dialogue on China to commence as soon as possible, especially in areas such as democracy support, 5G and 6G research and development, strategic dependency, intellectual property theft, providing a sustainable alternative to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Chinese malign investment more broadly;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Notes that China's industrial policy is incompatible with WTO norms and transparency, and calls on the EU and the US to work together to ensure China's compliance with WTO rules, and to stand firmly with those democratic countries against whom China continues to employ tariffs and other means as a weapon of coercion;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Underlines the importance of the EU remaining vigilant about China’s changing role and growing influence in multilateral organisations and to ensure better coordination among the Member States and towards combining the strength of global liberal democracies in order to respond to this development; calls on the EU to work with the US and other democratic partners to counter China's and other authoritarian regimes' attempts to rewrite international norms and to further address their malign influence in multilateral institutions, notable at the UN;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Underscores the necessity of fostering closer cooperation with NATO and G7 countries to fight hybrid threats, including cyber and disinformation campaigns stemming from China;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for stronger cooperation with NATO on Chinese security challenges; supports NATO’s proposal to develop a political strategy for approaching a world in which China will be of growing importance through to 2030; based on different scenarios for the development of relations with China, including the possibility of further deterioration of security in the South China Sea, and calls for dialogue and coordination with the countries of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines that investment and trade conditionality by itself is not enough to counter Chinese assertiveness; finds that the EU should increase strategic autonomy by addressing othaddress the wider dimensions of the EU-China relationship, notably digital and technological sovereignty, intellectual property theft and supply chain security;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for increased funding for 5G rollout projects and research into 6G, AI and big data technology, and the exclusion of Huawei and other Chinese companies from the Europe's 5G and 6G development and other critical infrastructure in order to ensure future network security and increased digital sovereignty which will be vital for digitalisation and economic growth, but also for closing the technological gap with China;
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Believes that the Union should continue working towards its transformation into a geopolitical player by ensuring a more united geopolitical approach of its Member States, as well as by fostering its strategic autonomygreater domestic resilience against the malign influence of China and other authoritarian regimes;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. Resolutely condemns the threats of reprisals and pressure imposed on Milos Vystrcil, the President of the Czech Senate, by China in connection to his visit to Taiwan in August 2020, and notes that the Czech Republic and any other sovereign country has the right to develop economic and cultural relations with Taiwan;
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Points to the need to strengthen the EU’s tools to defend itself, increase its capacity to protect its interests overseas, acquire greater influencplay a more pro-active, consistent and strategic role in its direct neighbourhood and ensure that the Member States are united in their geopolitical approach;
Amendment 476 #
35. Believes that the Conference on the Future of Europe should be used to give the VP/HR a stronger mandate to act on behalf of the EU and take the necessary steps to introducediscuss the possibility of using qualitied majority voting in certain areas of foreign affairs, as well as tohe feasibility of createing a European Defence Union while avoiding duplication with the primary role of NATO as a security guarantor across the wider transatlantic area;