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Frans-Paul van der Putten, founder of Dutch consultancy ChinaGeopolitics, said it appeared Beijing and The Hague were adopting a pragmatic approach to prioritise trade ties, despite the Nexperia saga. "For both the Chinese and the Dutch governments, it was not favourable to politicise the [Nexperia] issue," van der Putten said. The Chinese side...

Mindestens ebenso entscheidend ist jedoch auch der geopolitische Kontext, in dem sich Europa bewegt. Frans-Paul van der Putten, Senior Research Associate am Clingendael Institute, macht deutlich, dass sich die Risiken längst nicht mehr allein aus der Beziehung zwischen Europa und China ergeben.

The US–Israeli war against Iran has caught the European Union ill-prepared. Divided over how to respond, the EU may yet be drawn into a war over which it has no control, and it is now under increasing pressure from President Trump to deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz. Despite the urgency of this new war in the Middle East,...