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"en.20120522.21.2-528-000"2
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"Mr President, the EU continues to provide China with development aid despite its economic expansion. I hope the Chinese are grateful. Well, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I suppose they are: 85% of all pirated goods seized in the EU in 2010 came from China. The West has inflicted much of the harm itself, as nearly all of China’s export trade has been supplied by companies established with Western technology and expertise to compete with our industries and throw our workers on the scrap heap. In the words of the Committee on Industry, there is a ‘temptation for European enterprises to relocate their operations to China in order to cut their costs and increase their profits, to the detriment of the EU workforce’.
The countries of Europe must act to protect their manufacturing and the jobs of their peoples. The problem is that EU countries, individually and collectively, have embraced the economic ideology of globalism, while China is, quite understandably, pursuing a policy of economic nationalism. A policy of surrender at any cost will never be a match for a policy of victory at every cost."@en1
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