What “de-risking” China means
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, is a prominent user of the term. The head of the European Union’s permanent executive says that it is neither viable nor in Europe’s interest to decouple from China, a vital trading partner and leading player in efforts to tackle climate change and other global challenges. Instead, citing China’s growing repression at home and assertiveness abroad, she calls for de-risking ties.
Liberal democracies are even turning to risk management in such fraught domains as human rights. Foreign criticism will not end China’s iron-fisted rule over Xinjiang. In the name of fighting Islamic extremism in that far-western region, authorities have demolished mosques, jailed poets and sent Uyghurs to re-education camps, coercive work programmes and harsh boarding schools. But democracies have a right to protect consumers from buying the fruits of repression.
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