(af) ensure greater coordination and cooperation with like-minded partners on issues
of common concern to address the multi-dimensional challenge posed by China,
especially but not exclusively on issues such as strategic dependencies, economic
coercion, political interference and disinformation, and to promote rules-based
multilateralism and strategic solidarity between democracies;
(ag) further highlight the positive effect and strategic importance of deepening ties
between the EU and Taiwan, which is a reliable and valued partner playing an
indispensable role as a technology and trade partner; coordinate, in this regard,
with the EU’s global partners;
(ah) uphold the EU’s engagement policy with Taiwan in order to intensify cooperation
and continue supporting democracy there; encourage further exchanges between
the European Parliament and its Taiwanese interlocutors in this context, as well as
cooperation between the EU, Member States and Taiwan on issues of common
interest; support steps towards allowing Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the
meetings, mechanism and activities of relevant international institutions such as
the WHO, the International Civil Aviation Organization and the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change;
(ai) ensure clear and consistent signalling by the EU and its Member States that its
position on the EU’s ‘One China policy’ has not changed and that any attempt to
unilaterally change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, particularly by means of
force or coercion, cannot be accepted and will have high costs; support initiatives
aimed at promoting dialogue, cooperation and confidence-building between the
two sides; prepare a scenario-based strategy for tackling potential security
challenges in the Taiwan Strait and work together with regional partners to
prevent any unilateral change to the status quo by taking concrete steps to
discourage China from escalating tensions in the region, including through
increasing Coordinated Maritime Presences in the Taiwan Strait, facilitating
Taiwan’s security resilience and considering economic sanction packages in the
event of Chinese aggression;
(aj) condemn China’s increasing military provocation around the Taiwan Strait and
oppose China’s constant distortion of UN Resolution 2758 (XXVI) by demanding
that Taiwanese passport holders, including journalists, NGO workers and political
activists be barred from accessing tours and events in the UN;
(ak) increase the EU’s economic and diplomatic presence throughout the Indo-Pacific
region and recall that the world’s strategic and economic centre of gravity is
shifting to this region, and that the EU therefore has a clear interest in forging a
credible EU-level approach to the Indo-Pacific; underline the importance of
freedom of navigation to be respected by China, including in the South and East
China Seas; work with China and the EU’s regional partners to ensure freedom of
navigation and open and unrestricted shipping lanes, and encourage Member
States to explore forms of cooperation, including military cooperation, with
regional and global partners to ensure freedom of navigation in the South China
and East China Seas and deter any attempts at limiting freedom of navigation;
stress that the EEAS, together with EU Member States, should reject China’s
unlawful and unreasonable claims in the South China and East China Seas and
any unilateral attempts at controlling contested areas and territories;