from Hot News Post #:51714895 over in the politics forum
But two senior envoys who attended said there was no direct response from the ministers gathered in Brussels when Blinken said: "We must push back on China together and show strength in unity."
But the ministers were also cautious because the EU is looking for a strategic balance in relations with Beijing and Washington that ensures the bloc is not so closely allied with one of the world's two big powers that it alienates the other.
"We are charting a third way between Washington and Beijing," an EU envoy in Asia said.Another EU official in Asia expressed concern that the United States had "a hawkish agenda against China, which is not our agenda".
The United States says China is an authoritarian country that has embarked on a military modernisation that threatens the West, and has sought to weaken telecommunications equipment maker Huawei , which it sees as a national security threat.
one thing that the americans can always rely on - is that australia will always remain being an obedient lap dog
