‘Chinese people have stood up’: Beijing says it has no fear of US-EU aims to counter rising China

Beijing said on Wednesday it did not fear the relationship between the United States and the European Union after the two sides announced they would set up a body to write economic rules and take other steps to face rising competition from China.

A statement by the Chinese diplomatic mission at the EU said China was standing up and was not afraid of threats, saying the EU-US summit had gone far beyond the “norm of developing bilateral relations ... It is filled with an outdated cold war mentality and bloc politics rhetoric”.