Activities of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2023/2127(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU-China relations (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
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 (27)
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas China is simultaneously aa cooperation and negotiating partner and also increasingly a competitor and systemic rival to the EU;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas both the European Union and China, each have a sharedn interest in pursuing construactive and stable relations,; which must be basedereas the EU wants these relations to be built on the pillars onf respect for the rules-based international order, international law, balanced engagement and reciprocityinternational law and for each other and on the principle of balanced, reciprocal engagement and shared global responsibilities;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the ruling Chinese Communist Party does not share the same values as European democracies, has become increasingly authoritarian domestically and promotes governance models internationally that contradict the EU’s values;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in order to defend its core values and be treated as an equal partner, Europe needs a new approach towards China based on European strategic autonomovereignty, reciprocity, cooperation and strategic solidarity with like-minded partners and opposition to coercion;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the EU must not acceptopposes any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, particularly by force, norand in this regard is concerned at grey-zone activities, such as provocative military behaviour, economic coercion and cyberattacks, and opposes ongoing human rights violations within China, in particular in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong and Macao;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) continue engaging pragmatically with China to tackle global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity, health and pandemic preparedness, debt relief and humanitarian assistance, and increase effective dialogue with China on security issues in view of China’s increasingly critical role in global security;
Amendment 190 #
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 ordercall on China to assume its responsibility as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to pressurersuade Russia into stopping its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) reiterate that China, as the world’s largest carbon emitter, acts according to its own promises and must commit to peak its CO2 emissions before 2030 in line with the Paris Agreement and its own promisesparticipates commensurate with its economic power in efforts to financially support poorer countries affected by the negative consequences of climate change in the context of the Loss and Damage fund;
Amendment 205 #
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 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; opposes actions by China to undermine international law, distort the common understanding of human rights and deliberately misinterpret UN resolutions, such as UN Resolution 2758(XXVI) which does not provide a basis to the PRC's "One China principle";
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) respond adequately to China’s efforts to build alternative international organisations, 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-minded partners around the world based on multilateralism, territorial integrity and the values of the UN Charter;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) insist that China fulfils its responsibilities as a global power by upholdrespecting human rights and the rule of law;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ensure a unified European approach when China uses its economic leverage to silence opposition against its human rights abuses; intensify and include Members of the European Parliament in the Human Rights Dialogue with China and work towards a united approach on cultural and academic cooperation with China while preventing undue influence from Chinese sources of finance;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) condemn the use of death penalty; recall that the total estimated number of executions in China exceeds all other countries that execute capital punishment in 2022; urge China to create full transparency on the total number executions; further increase EU's diplomatic efforts to demand the abolition of the death penalty in China;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) call on the Chinese authorities to take necessary actions to terminate grave human rights violations as highlighted in the 2022 report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as end other measures that discriminate or inflict physical and psychological harm against minority groups, such as forced labour and political re-education; support an independent and impartial UN investigation into human rights violations in China, in particular in Xinjiang and Tibet, and urge the Chinese authorities to grant meaningful access to the regions concerned and immediately and unconditionally release the Uyghur scholar and 2019 Sakharov Prize Laureate Ilham Tohti;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) condemn continuous actions to restrict religious activities in China and especially in this regard the new legislation on Administrative Measures for Religious Activity Venues which aims at increasing party-state oversight about such activities and introducing propaganda elements in religious content;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) show solidarity with civil society in China and Hong Kong and Macao and speed up the implementation of the European human rights framework with Magnitsky-style sanctions in close collaboration with international partners, including the freezing of foreign assets and visa restrictions against those involved in human rights abuses, including political decision makers in Hong Kong;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
(na) condemn the practice of Chinese authorities of returning individuals to a country where they risk being tortured, in particular with regard to the forced return of people to North Korea, in light of the UN Security Council discussion on human-rights violations in North Korea; remind Chinese counterparts of their UN legal obligation to refrain from doing so;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point n b (new)
(nb) call on Chinese authorities to immediately terminate the practice of family separation in Tibet and forced assimilation at residential schools as highlighted by UN experts in February 2023; urge Chinese authorities to provide information about nine imprisoned environmental human rights defenders; call on Chinese authorities to allow independent observers, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to access Tibet;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point n c (new)
(nc) ensure a united European approach on cultural and academic cooperation with China, whilst preventing undue influence from Chinese sources of finance, including by investigating the status of research cooperation between EU and Chinese institutions, including exchange of data and where necessary consider ways of managing risks;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n d (new)
Paragraph 1 – point n d (new)
(nd) encourage more inter- parliamentary coordination with EU Member States’ parliaments on China and make full use of parliamentary diplomacy, especially with countries in the Global South to strengthen EU’s partnership with like-minded partners; ensure regular reporting by DG Expo and other administrative bodies of the European Parliament to Chairs of relevant Committees and Delegations on meetings with Chinese representatives;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subheading 3
Paragraph 1 – subheading 3
Ensuring Europe’s open strategic autonomy in dealing with China by de- risking
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) work closely towards fostering unity among the Member States’ approach towards China and strengthen the EU’s open strategic autonomy to ensure that Europe is ablbetter enable Europe to defend its values and economic interests, as well as the global rules-based order and in this context take account of the China Strategy of the Federal Government of Germany;
Amendment 377 #
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 flowpursue an approach of de-risking, including by diversification of value chains, reducing critical dependencies and risks of leakage in critical sectors and technologies without aiming to decouple or turning inwards, including by stepping up controls on outbound investments and creducating critical dependencies on the PRC without aiming to decouple or turning inwardsawareness about China's military-civil fusion strategy;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) swiftly implement, in this context, the European Economic Security Strategy, to be underpinned by a solid risk- assessment tool, and make better use of our existing trade instruments to minimise the detrimentalshort-term side 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 India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and partners in Southeast Asia;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point s a (new)
(sa) pay close attention to Chinese efforts to internationalise the Renminbi and in this context study possible effects of the implementation of the digital yuan on the global monetary system, including in regards to, for instance, risks of circumventing EU sanctions on third countries;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) highlight that the EU’s ‘One China policy’ remains the foundation of our engagement with both the PRC and Taiwan but also; recognises Taiwan as a reliable like-minded partner in Asia and highlights Taiwan's indispensable role as a technology and trade partner; underline the positive effect and strategic importance of deepening ties between the EU and Taiwan;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) ensure thatclear and consistent signalling by the EU and its Member States that its position on the EU's 'One China policy' has not changed and that any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait is not changedespecially by means of force or coercion bycannot be accepted and will have high economic costs; supporting initiatives aimed at promoting dialogue, cooperation and confidence-building between the two sides; prepare a scenario-based strategy for tackling potential security challenges in the Taiwan Strait;