Report (2025/2117(INI)) 29 September 2026

Recommendation on EU-China political relations

A-10-2026-0237-AM-001-004

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30.9.2026 A10-0237/1

Amendment 1

Hilde Vautmans

on behalf of the Renew Group

Report A10-0237/2026

Hilde Vautmans

(2025/2117(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 – point e

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
e) condemn and react to China’s role as a decisive enabler and dual-use provider of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and increase the cost for this stance; underscore the Chinese diplomatic backing and material assistance that sustains the Russian military-industrial complex; in particular, express deep concern over credible evidence of China’s growing involvement in the supply chain for Russian weapons, and drones, including the provision of dual-use technologies, components, and high-tech equipment that directly bolster Russia’s capacity to strike Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure;	e) condemn and react to China’s role as a decisive enabler and dual-use provider of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and increase the cost for this stance; underscore the Chinese diplomatic backing and material assistance that sustains the Russian military-industrial complex ; in particular, express deep concern over credible evidence of China’s growing involvement in the supply chain for Russian weapons and drones, including the provision of dual-use technologies, components, and high-tech equipment that directly bolster Russia’s capacity to strike Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure; further express deep concern over verified reports that the Chinese military has trained Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine;

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30.9.2026 A10-0237/2

Amendment 2

Hilde Vautmans

on behalf of the Renew Group

Report A10-0237/2026

Hilde Vautmans

Recommendation on EU-China political relations

(2025/2117(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 – point n

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
n) knowing that in times of significant economic pressure and increasing geostrategic transactionalism, the economic costs of coercion and economic retaliation should be avoided, find ways to counter the adverse effects of international tensions in the understanding that EU solidarity is essential to withstand international pressure; with that in mind, strengthen EU mechanisms to monitor and quickly target China’s economic coercion against Member States, ensuring that no single EU Member State faces economic coercion alone;	n) knowing that in times of significant economic pressure and increasing geostrategic transactionalism, the economic costs of coercion and economic retaliation should be avoided, find ways to counter the adverse effects of international tensions in the understanding that EU solidarity is essential to withstand international pressure; with that in mind, strengthen EU mechanisms to monitor and quickly target China’s economic coercion against Member States, ensuring that no single EU Member State faces economic coercion alone; note that, following China’s economic coercion against Lithuania, bilateral relations, including diplomatic and economic relations, have not yet normalised;

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30.9.2026 A10-0237/3

Amendment 3

Hilde Vautmans

on behalf of the Renew Group

Report A10-0237/2026

Hilde Vautmans

Recommendation on EU-China political relations

(2025/2117(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 – point am

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
am) condemn China’s systemic repression of ethnic and religious minorities, including through forced labour and mass surveillance, at every political meeting with Chinese counterparts; in particular, express deep concern regarding China’s systemic repression and forced assimilation policies in Tibet and Xinjiang, including attempts at forced Sinicisation and destruction of cultural heritage, such as interference in the processes of monitoring the election of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leaders, and demand the immediate abolition of the state-run residential boarding school system for Tibetan children; further strengthen EU pressure regarding China’s ongoing atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, emphasising that mass arbitrary detention, forced labour, and severe violations of freedom of religion continue despite the nominal closure of the internment camps; insist that the EU integrate the widespread and systematic repression of Uyghurs as a priority issue across all dimensions of EU-China relations; condemn China’s continued denial of freedom of religion or belief, including the systematic persecution of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and others outside state-controlled religious organisations, through harassment, detention, demolition of sacred symbols and places of worship and other repressive measures;	am) condemn China’s systemic repression of ethnic and religious minorities, including through forced labour and mass surveillance, at every political meeting with Chinese counterparts; express deep concern over the adoption of the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress and its potential to further institutionalise assimilationist policies and undermine the linguistic, cultural and religious rights of ethnic minorities; in particular, express deep concern regarding China’s systemic repression and forced assimilation policies in Tibet and Xinjiang, including attempts at forced sinicisation and destruction of cultural heritage, such as interference in the processes for monitoring the election of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leaders, and demand the immediate abolition of the state-run residential boarding school system for Tibetan children; further strengthen EU pressure regarding China’s ongoing atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, emphasising that mass arbitrary detention, forced labour, and severe violations of freedom of religion continue despite the nominal closure of the internment camps; insist that the EU integrate the widespread and systematic repression of Uyghurs as a priority issue across all dimensions of EU-China relations; condemn China’s continued denial of freedom of religion or belief, including the systematic persecution of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and others outside state-controlled religious organisations, through harassment, detention, demolition of sacred symbols and places of worship and other repressive measures;

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30.9.2026 A10-0237/4

Amendment 4

Hilde Vautmans

on behalf of the Renew Group

Report A10-0237/2026

Hilde Vautmans

Recommendation on EU-China political relations

(2025/2117(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 – point ao

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
ao) ask for the whereabouts of the Panchen Lama and demand the unconditional release of political prisoners, including the 2019 Sakharov Prize laureate Ilham Tohti, EU-citizen Gui Minhai, Gulshan Abbas, Gao Zhisheng, Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan, Xu Zhiyong, Huang Xueqin and Zhang Zhan, and ethnic Mongol activist Hada, detained Uyghur scholars and cultural figures, including the unlawfully imprisoned brothers of EU citizen Professor Yalkun Isa, Hushtar Isa and others; call for the termination of the practice of residential surveillance at a designated location, call for freedom of movement for 2008 Sakharov Prize laureate Hu Jia and ask for news on his current status; insist that China frees the laureate of the 2023 Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law Chow Hang-tung as well as Jimmy Lai, Benny Tai, Joshua Wong, Leung Kwok-hung, Owen Chow and individuals of the Hong Kong 47 group who remain imprisoned under the national security law; condemn the use of the death penalty in China, and note that the total estimated number of executions in China exceeds all other countries that apply capital punishment; support independent Chinese, Hong Kong, and diasporic civil-society actors, environmental defenders, labour rights advocates and human rights defenders; call for an EU-China Civil-Society Dialogue Facility that protects participants from retaliation and strengthens academic freedom and cross-border cooperation grounded in universal human rights;	ao) ask for the whereabouts of the Panchen Lama and demand the unconditional release of political prisoners, including the 2019 Sakharov Laureate Ilham Tohti, EU-citizen Gui Minhai, Gulshan Abbas, Gao Zhisheng, Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan, Xu Zhiyong, Huang Xueqin and Zhang Zhan, and ethnic Mongol activist Hada, detained Uyghur scholars and cultural figures, including the unlawfully imprisoned brothers of EU citizen Professor Yalkun Isa, Hushtar Isa and others; call for the termination of the practice of residential surveillance at a designated location, call for freedom of movement for 2008 Sakharov Laureate Hu Jia and ask news on his current status; insist that China frees the laureate of the 2023 Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law Chow Hang-tung as well as Jimmy Lai, Benny Tai, Joshua Wong, Leung Kwok hung, Owen Chow and individuals of Hong Kong 47 group who remain imprisoned under the national security law; condemn the prosecution of former pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San under Macao’s national security law and call for his immediate and unconditional release; condemn the use of the death penalty in China, and recall that the total estimated number of executions in China exceeds all other countries that apply capital punishment; support independent Chinese, Hong Kong, and diasporic civil-society actors, environmental defenders, and labour-rights advocates and human rights defenders; call for an EU-China Civil-Society Dialogue Facility that protects participants from retaliation and strengthens academic freedom and cross-border cooperation grounded in universal human rights;

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