European countries are increasingly involved in the US Indo-Pacific strategy, although in general most European countries remain in a ‘strained’ position in the system of relations with the second world power.

On Europe’s general policy in the IPR

Thus, the European Parliament became the fourth (after the parliaments of the Netherlands, Australia and the US Congress) to intervene on a highly sensitive issue concerning one of the main foreign trade and economic partners of all the countries of the continent. Moreover, this problem is territorially located on the other side of the globe from Europe. It is highly doubtful that such a demarche would be approved by the voters of the parliamentarians if they were asked for their opinion on this topic.

This act confirms Europe’s adherence to the trend of shifting the center of world events to the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR). It is here that the second global power is located, towards which the Europeans have launched a very unfriendly attack.

Europe’s increased interest in the region began to take shape in the second half of the 2010s. In April 2021, it took shape in the form of the EU Council’s ‘Strategy for Cooperation in the IPR’. Given that the region accounts for about 40% of the EU’s total external trade, other ‘specialized’ documents of the Union also have an impact on the political course in relation to individual countries of the region.

The European Economic Security Strategy, adopted in the summer of 2023, stands out among them. Its traces can be detected in recent restrictive EU measures on certain goods supplied by China. This applies first and foremost to electric cars and their batteries, and to the access of Chinese companies to the European market of services in the field of advanced communication systems. There are also........

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