Tag: EU-China relations
Beijing re-schedules Borrell visit for the autumn – POLITICO
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday invited EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and his delegation for a visit in the fall, after Beijing cancelled a trip initially planned for July.
The visit will allow for preparations ahead of an expected EU-China summit with “extensive and in-depth exchanges,” Wang was quoted as saying in a statement published by the Chinese Foreign Ministry after the two officials spoke on the phone. The leaders’ summit will occur before the end of
China found influence in Europe’s west — not east – POLITICO
Andreea Brinza is vice president of the Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific.
Soon after its inception in 2012, China’s then 16+1 mechanism for cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was deemed by some observers as a divide et impera strategy against the European Union.
But what a difference a decade makes, as it is, ironically, Western Europe that’s now putting the Continent’s unity on China to the test.
Regarded as small, in need of money,
What genocide? Volkswagen’s morally expensive bet on China – POLITICO
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BERLIN — The blowback came in the form of cake.
An annual meeting of Volkswagen shareholders in Berlin in May was disrupted by protesters, one of whom hurled the creamy confection at the assembled executives, forcing Chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch to flinch out of the way.
Among the subjects of their ire: A car plant some 3,500 miles away in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where Beijing has carried