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Breaking news, analysis and opinion on relations between China and the European Union, covering trade, investment, policy, the Belt and Road Initiative and wider issues such as the US-China trade war and human rights.
Putin’s re-election is positive for the increasingly close alliance with Beijing, but China’s diplomatic efforts require striking a fine balance ahead of Xi’s proposed trip to Europe.
Foreign minister makes it clear that China will be a stabilising, cooperative force in international affairs, and calls on US to honour its pledges with a warning over Taiwan.
- At G7 meeting in Italy, a US official said China is ‘contributing to Russia’s ability to prosecute’ the Ukraine war in ways that threaten all of Europe
- US pressure comes as Secretary of State Blinken prepares to visit China, a trip Washington says will take place in the ‘coming weeks’
German industry debates how to proceed after finding cracks in a once robust and mutually beneficial relationship.
In public remarks in China, chancellor did not throw support behind Brussels’ de-risking agenda and focused primarily on German business interests.
The Ukraine president says China could play a role in securing an end to the war, as he seeks Beijing’s backing for a peace summit in Switzerland.
Brussels has instigated a slew of investigations in recent weeks as frustration mounts over Beijing’s economic policies.
Chinese leader tells the German chancellor that neither side poses a security threat to the other and they should continue to strengthen their economic ties.
Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.
Scholz is looking to boost trade ties but the visit takes place at a time when Brussels has started a subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicle makers.
Fu’s tenure in Brussels coincided with growing tensions over Beijing’s relations with Russia and probes into alleged electric vehicle subsidies.
A recent report has found China has overtaken Germany in terms of certain exports, an elevation of status for the Asian juggernaut but a potential source of tension for already fraught bilateral relations.
State subsidies are in Brussels’ cross hairs as the world’s largest windpower producer exports low-cost turbines to quench global demand for clean power.
An anti-subsidies investigation into Chinese wind turbine manufacturers by the EU could saddle the bloc’s renewable project developers with high costs and slow down their decarbonisation efforts, analysts say. The impact on Chinese firms could be limited.
German businesses operating in China have said they face ‘unfair competition’, complicating the already tense relationship between the two countries in advance of a visit from Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Probe covers ‘conditions for the development of wind parks’ in six EU nations, competition chief Margrethe Vestager says, lashes out at ‘playbook for how China came to dominate the solar panel industry’.
Taiwanese vice-president-elect Hsiao Bi-khim was reportedly tailed during her trip to Prague last month.
Speaking in Paris to Chinese makers of electric vehicles and lithium batteries, commerce chief Wang Wentao vows Beijing will ‘fully support and defend’ their rights as Western pressure mounts.
What does one of the most influential business leaders think is the magic of China, and why could hubris rear its head if lessons are not learned from the perils and pitfalls of other economies?
Brussels launches survey to understand its exposure to Chinese semiconductors that power everyday items from cars to televisions, matching an American initiative that drew stern rebuke from Beijing.
Trade and Technology Council meeting, which begins Thursday, aims for agreements that would remain attractive to the former US president, should he be re-elected.
Two companies are being investigated by the European Commission in relation to Romanian project. EU industry chief says the probes ‘aim to preserve Europe’s economic security and competitiveness’.
Researchers have released their findings on the likely devastating responses taken by G7 countries as well as mainland China if tensions over Taiwan turned for the worse.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells his French counterpart that Beijing is concerned about European efforts to ‘de-risk’ its relations with China
Datenna is using open source intelligence to furnish governments with the data they need to make policy decisions on China.
Overcapacity will be absorbed as long as global demand for green transition stays strong, says former People’s Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan
Xi told the outgoing Dutch prime minister that ‘fragmenting industrial and supply chains will only lead to division and confrontation’
The European Union’s investigation was the first use of a foreign subsidies regulation designed to stop state handouts from distorting the bloc’s single market.
