Europe is progenitor of the white supremacist western empire that currently dominates the world. It started with European colonialism and continued even if Europe has lost those colonies. They instead moved to dominance of technology, finance, military and money. Europe obviously will always want that dominance to continue and oppose Chinese rise.
The only way this can end is EU is broken apart into individual countries again and a new european rivalry can be started where some countries will ally with China while others will ally with the so called west with US at the top. China should have no illusion of so called European Neutrality. Europe has every stake to keep US in dominant position as their "Child".