In China you can’t even found a company as a European, you always need a Chinese partner that would own the majority of your joint venture (the only fully foreign owned subsidiary in China is Tesla, btw, it’s the only exception). The whole country is a closed, China-only shop, and the US is just in the process to build its own China-like firewall around its country. What double standards …

Addition: China’s Xi affirms ‘no limits’ partnership with Putin in call on Ukraine war anniversary but China urges EU to stop discrediting China after Russia sanctions

That’s strange, here all works fine: Again: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uks-lammy-its-time-seize-russian-assets-not-just-freeze-them-2025-02-25

Addition: It’s quite short text, here we go:

Europe should move from freezing Russian assets to seizing them, British foreign minister David Lammy said on Tuesday, hardening Britain’s position on how the West should use bonds and other securities frozen since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

After Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia’s central bank and finance ministry, blocking $300-$350 billion of sovereign Russian assets.

They are mostly European, U.S. and British government bonds held in a European securities depository.

European leaders want to use those assets to help rebuild Ukraine, but have yet to reach an agreement on how to avoid legal challenges or setting a problematic international precedent, with several options under consideration.

“Europe has to act quickly, and I believe we should move from freezing assets to seizing assets,” Lammy told parliament when asked if he would support emergency legislation to seize and repurpose the assets to support Ukraine.

“It’s not an issue on which any government can act alone. We must act with European allies.”

Lammy did not elaborate on exactly how he wanted to deal with those assets.

In a January debate in parliament on what to do with the frozen assets, foreign office minister for Europe, Stephen Doughty, only went as far as to say Britain was considering “all lawful measures that we can possibly take to ensure that Ukraine gets the support it needs”.

The European Union estimates that some 210 billion euros ($220.58 billion) of the frozen money is held in the bloc, mainly in Euroclear, a Brussels-based securities depository.

Some Western officials, especially in the German government and the European Central Bank, have been reluctant to simply confiscate sovereign reserves, warning that such a move could face legal challenges and undermine the euro as a reserve currency.

Defying China’s reckless actions in the West Philippine Sea – [Comment by Victor Andres C. Manhit, president of the Stratbase ADR Institute]

Just when we thought we had seen enough of China’s mischief right in our own waters, a few days ago we learned that China outdid itself yet again.

On Feb. 18, a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy helicopter performed aggressive maneuvers near a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) plane. The BFAR plane was a civilian one, conducting a lawful maritime patrol within Philippine territory. Without any provocation, the PLA helicopter harassed it, flying as close as three meters above the aircraft and endangering the lives of the Filipinos who were on board.

What reckless, hostile, and arrogant behavior. What a flat-out disregard of international law and, in fact, basic decency.

Then again, this incident is not isolated. On Feb. 11, the Australian government expressed grave concern about an “unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a PLA Air Force Aircraft.” It turns out that this PLA aircraft released flares in close proximity to an Australian aircraft which was conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea, flying in international airspace.

Rightly so, China’s acts of aerial mischief have earned it the condemnation of the international community.

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