The German edition of Der Tagesspiegel published a piece in which China is accused of imperial claims to hegemony in Asia, Russia's Moskovsky Kosomolets reported.

According to the authors, China's military build-up poses a direct threat to other Asian countries, and a semblance of a new cold war has already emerged between China and the EU.

The newspaper called on Europe to create new associations, similar to those that were created in the XX century to 'contain' the Soviet Union.