1.媒体来源:
South China Morning Post(南华早报)
2.记者署名:
Finbarr Bermingham(芬巴尔·伯明罕
3.完整新闻标题:
Exclusive |China asks European leaders to meet Xi in November. But will they
accept?
独家| 中国要求欧洲领导人在11月会见习近平。但他们会接受吗？
4.完整新闻内文:
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欧洲最高领导人已获邀于11月在北京会见中国国家主席习近平，但尚未决定是否接受。
据一位熟悉情况的高级消息人士透露，已向
德国总理奥拉夫·萧兹
法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙
意大利总理马里奥·德拉吉
西班牙总理佩德罗·桑切斯
发出了邀请。
预计日期可能紧随于10月举行的第20大之后。
这些访问将与当月在巴里岛举行的G20领导人峰会相吻合，并将标志着西欧领导人返回中国
，此前近三年的清零政策阻碍了面对面的中国外交。
巴黎正在就如何处理这一邀请进行“激烈辩论”，但众所周知，欧洲最强大国家的领导人赞
成与中国就乌克兰、粮食安全和经济关系等问题进行对话。
“很难对中国说不，尤其是对习近平说不”
这位外交官补充说，中国外交部长王毅将于9月前往欧洲，当月在纽约举行的联合国大会，
在此期间，他“将准备对中国进行这些高级别访问”。
虽然习近平在2月北京冬奥会开幕式上会见了多位世界领导人，包括俄罗斯和塞尔维亚总统
弗拉基米尔·普京（Vladimir Putin）和亚历山大·武契奇（Aleksandar Vu?i?），但西方
领导人在很大程度上被回避了。
去年，有人讨论马克龙与德国前总理安格拉·默克尔（Angela Merkel）一起访问，默克尔
热衷于告别一个与她建立了密切联系的中国。
中国官员为这次访问奠定了基础，但据信，在冠状病毒协定的重压下，这次旅行被取消了，
而这些协定对于确保与习近平面对面的时间是必要的。
与此同时，欧盟高级外交官何塞普·博雷尔（Josep Borrell）在4月与欧盟机构领导人举行
的在线峰会上被描述为“聋哑人的对话”，此前中国被认为无视布鲁塞尔?明阻止俄罗斯对
乌克兰的猛攻的请求。
“因为乌克兰，与中国交谈是很有趣的，这是欧洲的首要任务。粮食安全[将列入议程]，中
国是一个主要的农业大国，欧中关系也不能受制于美中关系，中期选举将产生影响，“这位
不愿透露姓名的高级外交官说。
“所以对我们来说，也许对于每个国家元首来说，我们都想看看中国在那一刻所处的位置。
法国、意大利和西班牙政府没有回应置评请求。中国政府拒绝置评。
“请理解，我们总是在适当的时间公布总理的行程，通常是前一周，”德国总理府发言人在
被问及邀请时说。
在大流行期间，双边关系恶化，新疆涉嫌侵犯人权的重大冲突，香港抗议者的镇压以及台湾
的紧张局势。
周二的双边会谈将讨论长期存在的经济不满，欧盟预计将获得一系列技术协定，以帮助进一
步向欧洲公司开放中国市场，特别是在农业领域。
但这些会谈很难实现。消息人士称，布鲁塞尔的呼吁几个月来一直没有得到回应，习近平的
经济顾问和副总理刘鹤在本月早些时候完成与美国财政部长耶伦的会谈后才承诺日期。
自12月张明离任上海合作组织以来，中国驻欧盟大使一直空缺。
从那以后，欧洲官员和外交官每两周向北京提出这个问题。博雷尔还向王全璋询问了本月早
些时候在巴厘岛举行的G20外长会议上的空缺。
中国官员回应说，候选人名单“级别如此之高”，预计今年晚些时候举行20大才能决定。他
们开玩笑地指出，中国已经整整一年没有大使来结盟朝鲜
了。
外交官们还被告知，北京对欧洲议会对中国日益增长的敌意感到担忧，最近欧洲议会通过了
一系列决议，严厉批评香港和新疆的政策。
特别是，中国官员指出，去年中国对英国立法者的制裁，他们的驻英国大使郑泽光被禁止进
入该国议会。
“这是一个问题，因为中国希望确保张明的继任者得到良好的对待，不会像郑文杰在伦敦那
样受到羞辱，”
上周，为了反映中欧和东欧与中国接触的兴趣减弱，北京与该地区11个国家举行了对话。
它标志着之前的“17 + 1”格式的缩小，立陶宛去年正式退出了该格式，据报导，其他人一
直在考虑放弃。
据一位熟悉该活动的外交消息人士透露，匈牙利表示今年将在布达佩斯主办一次“纪念部长
级会议”，以纪念16 + 1成立10周年。
新闻原英文稿：
Top European leaders have been invited to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in
Beijing in November but have yet to decide whether to accept.
Invitations have been sent to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President
Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Spanish Prime Minister
Pedro Sanchez, according to a senior source familiar with the situation.
The proposed date would likely be right after the 20th party congress, expected
to be held in October.
The trips would coincide with the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali that month and
would mark a return to China for Western European leaders, following almost
three years of a zero-Covid policy that has put a block on in-person, in-China
diplomacy.
A “heated debate” is ongoing in Paris on how to deal with the invitation, but
leaders of Europe’s most powerful nations are known to favour dialogue with
China on issues such as Ukraine, food security, and economic relations.
“It is difficult to say no to China, especially to Xi,” said the senior
diplomat.
Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, will travel to Europe in September on his
way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York that month, during which
he “will be preparing these high-level visits to China”, the diplomat added.
While Xi met multiple world leaders at the launch of the Beijing Winter
Olympics in February, including Russian and Serbian presidents Vladimir Putin
and Aleksandar Vu?i?, Western leaders have been largely shunned.
There were discussions last year about Macron visiting along with former German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was keen to bid farewell to a China with which
she had fostered close ties.
Chinese officials laid the groundwork for the trip, but it is thought to have
been cancelled under the weight of the coronavirus protocols that would have
been necessary to secure face time with Xi.
An online summit with EU institution leaders in April, meanwhile, was described
by top EU diplomat Josep Borrell as “a dialogue of the deaf”, after China was
perceived to have ignored Brussels’ pleas to help stop Russia’s onslaught on
Ukraine.
“It’s of interest to speak to China because of Ukraine, which is the number
one priority in Europe. Food security [will be on the agenda], China is a major
agricultural power, and also Europe-China relations cannot be held hostage to
US-China relations, and the midterms would have an impact,” said the unnamed
senior diplomat.
“So for us, probably for every head of state, we want to see where China is
at, at that moment.”
The governments of France, Italy and Spain did not respond to requests for
comment. The Chinese government declined to comment.
“Please understand that we always inform about the chancellor’s travels at
the appropriate time, usually the week before,” a spokeswoman for the German
Chancellery said when asked about the invitation.
Over the course of the pandemic, bilateral ties have deteriorated with major
clashes over alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the crackdown on
protesters in Hong Kong and tension over Taiwan.
Long-standing economic grievances will be discussed during bilateral talks on
Tuesday, where the EU expects to secure a number of technical agreements to
help open the Chinese market further to European firms, particularly in the
agricultural space.
But these talks were painful to secure. Brussels’ calls went unanswered for
months, with Xi’s economic adviser and Vice-Premier Liu He only committing to
a date after he had completed talks with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
earlier this month, sources said.
The role of Chinese ambassador to the EU has been vacant since December, when
Zhang Ming departed to lead the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
European officials and diplomats have raised the issue with Beijing on a
fortnightly basis ever since. Borrell also asked Wang about the vacancy at the
G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Bali earlier this month.
Chinese officials have responded that the list of candidates is “so high-level
” that it cannot be decided upon until the 20th National Congress of the
Chinese Communist Party, expected to be held later this year. Tongue-in-cheek,
they point to the fact that China has not had an ambassador to close ally North
Korea for a full year.
Diplomats have also been told that Beijing was concerned by the growing
animosity towards China in the European Parliament, where there has been a
series of resolutions passed recently that criticised policies in Hong Kong and
Xinjiang in stern fashion.
In particular, Chinese officials have pointed to the barring of their
ambassador to the United Kingdom, Zheng Zeguang, from the country’s parliament
over Chinese sanctions on British lawmakers last year.
“That’s a problem because China wants to make sure the successor to Zhang
Ming will be well-treated and not be humiliated like Zheng was in London,” the
senior diplomat said.
Last week, in a reflection of the waning appetite for engagement with China
across Central and Eastern Europe, Beijing hosted a dialogue with 11 countries
from the region.
It marked a slimming down of the previous “17+1” format, which Lithuania
officially exited last year, and which others have reportedly been considering
abandoning.
Hungary offered to host a “commemorative ministerial” in Budapest this year
to mark the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the 16+1, according to a
diplomatic source familiar with the event.
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