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"Mr President, I agree with Mr Gollnisch, who said we need to find a way of trading and conducting bilateral commerce with China which would solve all the problems over unequal market access and mutual relations, which the report has documented so well.
However, I do not think protectionism is a solution. Greater competitiveness in Europe – this is how to compete with the Chinese economy, and it does not have to mean competing on the basis of paying the lowest possible wages.
China is the European Union’s second most important economic partner, and we are the most important partner for China. China is a key source of our imports, and the fact that China and the EU are the two largest economies in the world testifies to the importance of the problem of which we are speaking here. Finally, I would like to make one more point: when we are considering questions of economic relations with China, which, without doubt, are of crucial importance for the future of the economy – ours and China’s – let us never forget that our trading relations must also include an element of protection for human rights, and the situation on this is a continual problem if we are talking about Chinese society and the Chinese State. When doing business, let us not forget that we should expect equal standards, and not just equal social and environmental standards, but also equal standards concerning respect for fundamental human rights, including in the great country of China."@en1
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