17 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2015/2003(INI)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, under the current leadership of Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary and President Xi Jinping, China has launched a flurry of initiativ, continuing the policy of reform and openness initiated 30 years ago by Deng Xiaoping, China has launched a further broad spectrum of initiatives seeking to identify and implement, in the context of a common and coherent development plan, possible solutions to ongoing regional and local economic crises, including a strategically important energy deal with Russia, the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and a ‘New Silk Road’ project to integrate China economically with Central Asia and, ultimately, with Europe and Africa;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas China is pressing for statutory investment protection backed byduring the negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) and in this connection, after initial hesitations, is now prepared, evidently for reasons of equal treatment, to enshrine traditional investor- state- dispute settlement (ISDS) procedures during the negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT), as proposed by the Commission and supported by a majority in the European Parliament, in the text of the treaty;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas President Xi Jinping launched the ‘Chinese Dream’, which is aimed at revitalising the Chinese nation inside and outside the PRC by strengthening the power monopoly of the CPC, re- ideologising the parthe 18th Conference of the Chinese Communist Party and the most recent sessions of the National People’s Congress have developed a central programme entitled the ‘Chinese Dream’, which is aimed at revitalising the Chinese nation inside and outside the PRC; whereas the Chinese party and state leadership, in view of the radically changed economic conditions both in China itself and in the world at large, is intending, under the motto of the ‘new normality’, the state and society and increasing the authority of the party leadero address both the old unresolved social problems and the new challenges related to China’s growing integration into the global economy;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas President Xi Jinping’s popular anti-corruption campaign has claimed one high-profile victim after another, exposing not only graft, but also the vast fortunes amassed by Chinese leaders and also revealing the infiltration of powerful criminal networks into the political system; , as a result of the comprehensive anti-corruption campaign by the Chinese party and state leadership, in 2014 alone, thanks to the detection of bribery and the unlawful accumulation of extremely large fortunes, more than 70 000 workers at nearly all levels and departments of the party, government, army and police, and increasingly also from state enterprises, were removed from office, transferred, underwent disciplinary proceedings as members of the Chinese Communist Party or were sent for prosecution before state courts;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas China’s family planning policy hassince the 1980s has not only put an end to the country’s unchecked population growth, particularly in the 20th century, but has also caused a rapid ageing process among the population since the 1980s, with over 200 million citizens now over 60 years old; present, with the result that over 200 million citizens in China are already over 60 years old; whereas as far back as 2013, in view of increasingly severe demographic problems, the Chinese leadership began to correct the strict birth control regulations, but whereas, partly as a result of changed values in society, this has as yet not brought about a significant increase in the birth rate;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas environmental degradation in China has taken dramatic proportions and requires powerful and targeted governmentproblems in China have taken on dramatic proportions to the extent that the Chinese leadership is now treating them as a key challenge for the social development and political stability of the country, while also addressing the contribution that China must make at international level to the urgently needed changes in global climate and energy policy; whereas more powerful and targeted government action has now begun to be taken; whereas the development of results-oriented cooperation between the EU and China in the environmental field too must open up concrete areas for negotiation to develop and implement common strategies to genuinely curb climate change, which can only be successfully realised through reciprocal action;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas China has for some time been faced with new security challenges; whereas in 2013 and 2014 Beijing, Kunming and Urumqi were the targets of major and violent terrorist attacks, leaving 72 people dead and 356 injured; whereas China is preparing an anti-terror law, which underlines the fact thatrecently China has adopted a number of laws in the field of internal security, by which the government not only gives the fight against terrorism the highest priority, but which also represent a a shift in political priorities from the former unconditionsl policy of reform and openness towards an accompanying policy of control and security;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the, with its new White Paper on China’s military strategy postulates that the traditional mentality that land outweighs sea must be abandoned and that greater importance should be attached to manmilitary strategy, China has provided itself with a strategic defence policy framework which, in the light of the altered global and regional power balance, is geared in the context of an overall reorganisation of its armed forces not only to reducing troop numbers but also, for the first time, to perceptibly increasing its maritime capability in contrast to its former fixation with land forces, focuses on countering a variety of cyber-security threats, and at the same time declares the country’s defence to be the task of the whole of society; whereas, againgst the seas and protecting maritime rights and interestsis background, China is not just constantly raising its military expenditure but has at the same time become the world’s third-largest arms exporter;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas, in a 2002 Declaration of Conduct, China and the ASEAN countries signified their willingness to create conditions for ‘a peaceful and durable solution’ in the South China Sea China’s efforts to develop collective international security structures are currently focusing on the Central Asian region, and whereas such processes have as yet not progressed so far in the no less problematic regions of East and South-East Asia; whereas, in a 2002 Declaration of Conduct, China and the ASEAN countries signified their willingness to create conditions for ‘a peaceful and durable solution’ to the issue of overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea; whereas in the absence of collective security structures in this region, China and the USA, in view of growing tensions and an increase in direct military confrontations, have recently at least signed a code of conduct on airspace encounters between military forces, which could have some confidence-building effect and is therefore internationally regarded as a step towards détente;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas China is, in the years since the Korean War, China has become North Korea’s main political supporter, largest investor, aid donor and trade partner;, whereas Chinese experts recently revealed that Norile also in recent years developing extensive political and economic links with South Korea; whereas China should therefore be an important mediator for preserving stability on the Korea may already have 20 nuclear warheads; n Peninsula, as well as in international efforts towards nuclear disarmament and compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the Chinese GovernmentPeople’s Republic of China has signed and ratified the UN international conventions on Human Rights, and thus acknowledges the importsignificance and even the universality of human rights, but prefers to present this as an aspirwhereas at the same time problems and violations rather than a binding norm for the presentepeatedly occur in the implementation of individual human rights in the political and social sphere; whereas the Chinese Government is developing dialogue forums on the rule of law with the EU and other international partner states;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas the EU adheres toreaffirms its one- China policy in the context of cross-sStrait relations between the PRC and Taiwan;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need for EU Member States to speak with one voice to the EU and its 28 Member States to work jointly to further extend relations with the People’s Republic of China and to advance political and economic cooperation withe Chinese Government, particularly in view of Beijing’s present diplomatic dynamism; deplores the lack of profound debate and close coordination at EU level regarding Member States’ membership of the AIIB; a, thus striving for and achieving greater coordination of relevant capacities between the various Member States in the interest of meeting global challenges; calls for a corresponding initiative from the EEAS on matters including increased cooperation between the EU Member States in the framework of the UN system, taking account of the growing importance of the international action of the People’s Republic of China; deplores the lack of profound debate and close coordination at EU level regarding Member States’ membership of the AIIB and the fact that, at the same time, insufficient account is taken of the complexity of global economic and trade policy challenges for EU-China relations;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. UnderlinNotes the Chinese interest in strategic infrastructure investments in Europe; concludesalls on the Commission, with regard to Beijing’s demand forposition, by analogy with the Commission's own proposal following the opening of the traditional ISDS procedures, as an essential element of a BIT, that Brussels should reciprocally demand that provisions be included in the BIT that guarantee better aclso to incorporate in the current bilateral EU-China negotiations on the EU-China BIT its proposal, devised following the public consultation on the ISDS mechanism in the TTIP negotiation process, for and fairer treatment of EU companies on the Chinese marketthe establishment of an international court for the rights and obligations of investors;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Observes that, although the targets of the anti-corruption campaign extend to the highest political level, these seem to be limited to the allies of President Xi’s main rivals in the CPC; considers that this fierce ongoing anti-corruption campaign is, at the same time, serving to win back popular trust in the CPC, to discipline bureaucracy and to eliminate rivals inside the CPCWelcomes the fact that, in the light of the endemic corruption in China, the new party and state leadership has taken up the fight against corruption in order to counteract the major potentially destabilising forces in Chinese society with unpredictable repercussions for the development of the global economy; notes that this campaign is being targeted not just at ‘small criminals’ but also against existing ‘robust interest cartels’ of officials at all political levels and economic actors; considers that this fierce ongoing anti-corruption campaign could make a still greater contribution to restoring trust in the CPC and to resolving the severe social conflicts in China if it were to be pursued consistently on a broader rule-of-law basis and if, at the same time, instances of mismanagement arising from the past economic policy were to be eliminated;