EU also relied on China during the COVID pandemic for protective equipment and now for medicines and pharmaceutical raw materials.
ECONOMIC SECURITY STRATEGYA reassessment of risk due to rising geopolitical tensions is also a key part of the European Economic Security Strategy unveiled in June.
The strategy focuses on risks to supply chain resilience, physical and cyber security of critical infrastructure, technology security and leakage and weaponisation of economic dependencies or economic coercion.
However, while the economic strategy does not name China, it talks of partnering with link-minded countries and de-risking, its policy of reducing reliance on China.
The Commission, which oversees EU trade policy, has said the strategy, including the assessments, will be carried out with EU governments.
Persons:
Philip Blenkinsop, Nick Macfie
Organizations:
European Union, EU, European Economic Security, European Commission, Commission, The, Thomson
Locations:
BRUSSELS, China, Ukraine, U.S, Russia, EU, Moscow, Brussels