Xi visits EU; Experts say it is to divide US and EU

The Chinese Communist Party, or CCP's General Secretary, Xi Jinping, will visit three EU countries between May 5th and October. This is Xi's first visit to the bloc in five years. Xi will visit France, Hungary, and Serbia. According to the Epoch Times, France attaches great importance to trade with China. Hungary and Serbia are also close European friends of Beijing. Taiwanese researchers believe Xi wants to use this visit to cause division between the Lai Rongwei, CEO of the Taiwan Inspirational Association, or TIA, told the Epoch Times, the CCP wants to create so-called non-cooperation and disunity among European countries, and even wants to cause discord between Europe and the United States, then use this to break the containment of China by the United States. He added that Xi intends to resort to his old trick again, economic cooperation, to achieve his goal. Lai believes that Beijing's tricks can be neutralized because the U.S. will help any country coerced by the CCP using economic pressure. A few years ago, Lithuania, because it supported Taiwan, was pressured economically by the Chinese. The Philippines has also been in a similar situation. Both of these countries have received active support from the U.S. Lai added, it can be seen from this series of actions that the United States and European countries have actually noticed the CCP using economic means to create oppression. There are only a few countries in Europe that are economically weak, that need the economic exchanges with China. Wang Guochun, an assistant researcher at the Tsinghua Institution for Economic Research, said, the overall picture of Europe and the United States is probably very clear, that is, from the original unilateral confrontation between the United States and China, it is now slowly expanding to the EU and Japan to jointly counter mainland China's, CCP's, economic coercion. From traditional tariff wars to technology ban and now rising to the level of economic security.