The head of the Swiss agency that implements economic sanctions expects the neutral country to adopt any punitive measures the European Union launches against China if it invades Taiwan, she said in a newspaper interview.
China has been stepping up military activity around Taiwan seeking to pressure the democratically elected government there to accept Chinese sovereignty. Taiwan’s government says only the island’s 23 million people can decide their future, and while it wants peace, it will defend itself if attacked.
Asked by the Neue Zuercher Zeitung paper if Switzerland would adopt EU sanctions against China in that case, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Director Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch said: “I strongly believe that we would adopt such sanctions.
“However, sanctions in the case of China would be far more drastic (than sanctions against Russia) because the economic relations are much more important. Therefore, there would probably be greater discussions in the EU and the United States as well as in Switzerland than there were in Russia. But I hope it will never come to that.”
Ineichen-Fleisch defended Switzerland’s record on adopting EU sanctions against Russian individuals and companies over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, which Moscow describes as a “special military operation”.
$7 billion???? That wouldn’t even put one person out of business today.
I just learned that about 50% of Taiwan would like to rejoin mainland China. What shocked me was who they are. They are the followers of Chiang Kai-Shek. The man who fought Mao. I always thought they would fight to the end. The Han Chinese are very ethnocentric. Apparently, tribe super cedes the CCP government. That’s all I have on this. Anyone else?