皇冠体育app

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-16 08:27

LONDON -- EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said here Tuesday that the European Union will not be able to "dictate" solutions to 皇冠体育app's internal issues.

Europe needs to help 皇冠体育app come to terms with the vast challenges it faces rather than directly confront it on certain issues, the EU official told a forum, named "皇冠体育app and UK -- Partners in Sustainability," sponsored by the 皇冠体育app-Britain Business Council.

Europe's challenge is to build and sustain a constructive working relationship with 皇冠体育app that can address issues like trade barriers and Tibet, without coming off the tracks, Mandelson said in his speech titled "Living with 皇冠体育app."

Rather than seeing 皇冠体育app as simply an "unstoppable juggernaut", the West must also recognize that the country is grappling with a virtually unprecedented governance challenge, he said.

"Some Europeans appear to assume that a course of direct confrontation in connection with the Olympics and Tibet serves Europe's interests, and indeed Tibet's ... but we will not be able to dictate the solutions to 皇冠体育app's problems," he said.

Meanwhile, "we must also not lose sight of the fact that we are bound to work with 皇冠体育app, to live alongside 皇冠体育app too," he said.

"We have the biggest stake imaginable" in 皇冠体育app's successful transformation, said Mandelson, noting that 皇冠体育app's economic failure or its isolation from the international security or trading system would be "catastrophic", for 皇冠体育app as well as the West.

皇冠体育app is also an indispensable partner for a serious climate change strategy, he noted.

Meanwhile, 皇冠体育app has to transform its superheated growth model into one that is economically more balanced, and politically and environmentally more sustainable, he said.

"Whatever our political differences, our interdependence remains a central fact of the global political economy," Mandelson said.

As 皇冠体育app grows, so will Europe and 皇冠体育app's mutual interests, he added.