“The Netherlands is one just two European Union members -- Sweden is the other -- to have a public strategy on China”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/how-china-made-the-netherlands-question-its-free-market-beliefs …
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“This policy document is based on discussions within Dutch central government and talks with over a hundred outside experts”https://www.government.nl/documents/policy-notes/2019/05/15/china-strategy-the-netherlands--china-a-new-balance …
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“We are seeing a multipolar world order emerge as a result of shifts in geopolitical and economic power. Traditional American leadership is not what it used to be, while other established great powers such as Russia and China are taking a more assertive stance.”
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“Like China, India is economically on the rise, while the relative economic importance of the EU and the US is declining. Ideological tensions are emerging between East and West, conservatives and progressives, autocracy and democracy.”
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“Successful poverty reduction and burgeoning development go hand in hand with inequalities in the distribution of opportunities and incomes. For many decades, there was growing observance of human rights in almost every part of the world, but this trend appears to have halted”
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“Two different models are in competition: the open Western model, which also serves as the basis for the Netherlands, and the closed Chinese model, which benefits from Western openness (transfer of knowledge and technology) while restricting access to the Chinese market.”
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“China’s goals are, in brief: (1) further economic development and transformation from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy that is largely independent of foreign knowledge and technology, and (2) maintenance of internal stability under the leadership of the CPC.”
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“Another well-known concept is the ‘community of shared future for mankind’, which China promotes internationally … a new international order in which China no longer deviates from the norm.”pic.twitter.com/8B7IN8QJwR
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“CPC documents openly refer to Western countries as ‘anti-China forces’ which are out to overthrow the socialist system out of envy of China’s economic development. By definition, this sets limits to the nature of relations between China and a country like the Netherlands.”pic.twitter.com/1pvGzQ4Fz4
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