On "Forbes Newsroom", Fellow at the European Foreign Relations Council, Liana Fix, discusses how Europe can navigate through the ongoing discussions between the United States and China over trade and tariffs.
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00:00Based on your studies and your area of focus, what can you say about President Xi's mindset right now? And what do you project is the likelihood for him to negotiate or change terms?
00:14So what we've seen is a very principled Chinese stance. So they did not want to go in line with all the others who called the president, President Trump, to go into negotiations. There's a strong feeling of pride and respect that has to be respected on both sides there, on the side of President Trump and on the side of President Xi Jinping.
00:37And there's a strong conviction that China will not go to U.S. pressure to the same extent as other countries do. This has also to do with China's own self-perception of its role in the world.
00:49But on the other side, there's also a lot of nervousness in Beijing because the United States has behaved so differently than they knew from past U.S. administrations, even from the first Trump administration.
01:01Let's, for example, take the war against Ukraine, where China is supporting Russia and allowing Russia to continue this war.
01:08Suddenly, Russia and the United States are doing a kind of rapprochement, which leaves China, the traditional partner of Russia, weirdly on the sidelines, although it played this important role in supporting Russia's war, which makes Beijing nervous.
01:21There's a strong, strong idea that China will not just be bullied around, but also a strong nervousness about what's actually the whole plan and strategy behind this.
01:41You can make that statement.
01:49Right.
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