Europe Looking Anew at China Relations Amid Beijing’s Backing of Russia

Signs of change include the Czech president-elect’s call to Taiwan’s leader and the NATO secretary-general’s underlining of Beijing’s Moscow-like bullying tactics against its neighbors.

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The NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, with Japan's prime minister, Fumio Kishida, January 31, 2023, at Tokyo. Takashi Aoyama/pool via AP

As the Continent awakens to the pitfalls of maintaining relations with Communist China, with even Old Europe beginning to realize that Beijing is far from an ally, some former Soviet republics are seeing the benefits of befriending Taiwan. 

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