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Posted on December 15, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleChina is increasingly using economic ties for political gains, according to EU's Kaja Kallas. The EU is exploring ways to enhance its resilience against such tactics.
BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China is increasingly weaponizing economic ties for political gains, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday, following meetings between the bloc's foreign affairs ministers.
"Today ministers discussed how we can better deploy our trade arsenal to strengthen Europe's resilience. No European country can match China on its own," Kallas said.
(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, Andrew Gray and Inti Landauro;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
The article discusses China's use of economic ties for political gains and the EU's response to this challenge.
The EU is concerned because no single European country can match China's economic power alone.
Kaja Kallas stated that China is weaponizing economic ties for political gains and discussed EU's strategies to counter this.
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