Switzerland Should ‘Robustly’ Defend Values, Interests in Relation to China: Foreign Minister

In this file photo, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow on June 19, 2019. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images

For Switzerland, doing business with the Chinese regime to “emancipate itself a little from Europe” did not work out as expected, a Swiss government minister has said.

Ignazio Cassis, a member of Federal Council and the foreign minister of Switzerland, recently told Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick that Switzerland’s trading relationship with China has been “more turbulent” than the Swiss government thought it would be.