"The Chinese industrial tsunami poses a genuine systemic threat to the EU" (P. Canfin, Renew)

"We must better withstand the Chinese industrial tsunami, which poses a genuine systemic threat, not just a sectoral one affecting a few technologies or industries. It is the whole system that is under threat from largely unfair practices,” said Pascal Canfin, a Renew MEP and member of the ENVI andINTA committees, to News Tank on 30 October 2026.

"European policy towards China must rest on two pillars: the first is protection. The second is innovation: we must reduce our technological dependence on China, yet it is currently the best. Twenty years ago, China embarked on the path to electrification, and is now the world’s leading ‘electrostate,” continues Pascal Canfin.

He was speaking the day after the return of the first European parliamentary mission to China since 2018, which took place…