00:00The EU is considering using against China if China further sort of clamps down on the supply of rare earth.
00:05The China economy cannot survive without Europe and also the other way around.
00:10First of course China says that they are not part of this military conflict
00:15but I was very clear that China has a huge leverage on Russia
00:20every week more and more because Russian economy is weak.
00:24As well President Trump put the sanctions on two very important energy companies
00:30Gazprom and Rusneft of Russia.
00:33As well President Trump and President Xi they had a meeting
00:38as Trump said as well that this pressure is very important that China should join
00:44and I think that China can do a lot if joining the pressure to Russia to finish the war.
00:51Actually gaining our interests but also not China interests and globally it will be a disaster.
00:56And also we need to explain every time and more and more to China as well
01:01that this is not about Russian aggression against Ukraine only.
01:06This is a matter of our existential interests
01:09and if we would like to have good relations with China and China with us
01:13so China should understand that Russia is not a threat to Ukraine only
01:17but it is an existential matter about defence and security policy to Estonia but Europe as a whole.
01:24Do you have any more sort of information on the general licences deal or is that not quite clear?
01:30China was in the position as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council
01:36that it is like the spillover of the Ukraine crisis.
01:41So it is not a spillover.
01:42It is well planned, it is well organised test of the NATO unity.
01:47It is a very clear violation of the principles I mentioned before as well over airspace.
01:53My messages were very clear but our conversation was very open and I am very grateful for that.
01:58We must have known the monopoly in the hand of one country.
02:03It can be misused as we saw.
02:05These intentions are not good for trade for everybody as well for China in the future.
02:11So that is why European Commission has been on very strong position as well
02:15that these restrictions are not actually gaining our interests but also not China interests
02:22and globally it will be a disaster.
02:24But for Europe and for the world as well these questions are existential because
02:29But of course we understand as well that if there are negotiations with the US about tariffs and other measures
02:36so China showed very clearly that they have in some topics as well the leverage.
02:43But with the European Union I think that we should have these negotiations
02:47and also this is a China responsibility to not misuse this leverage.
02:52We have a metal magnet factory in Estonia and so we are doing this.
03:06We have a metal magnet factory in the past.
03:08We are using the Chinese
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