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EU-China relations

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    EU trade
    EU capitals set to back tariffs on Chinese electric cars, trade chief says

    Valdis Dombrovskis confident measure will enter into force in November

    Geely Zeekr electric car
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    Italy’s Meloni pledges ‘relaunch’ of ties with China

    Prime minister seeks to stabilise relations during visit to Beijing but also insists trade must be ‘more fair’

    A TV news broadcast about the two leaders’ meeting is shown on a large screen on a building in Beijing
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Trade disputes
    Does Brussels plan to charge Chinese batteries?

    For whom the cell tolls

  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Orbán hails China as ‘key power’ for promoting peace in Ukraine during Beijing visit

    Hungarian premier has rattled EU and Nato allies with recent diplomatic forays to Kyiv and Moscow

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing on Monday
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    EU takes aim at China’s Temu and Shein with proposed import duty

    European Commission plans to scrap €150 threshold below which goods are exempt from customs duties

    Temu’s app on a smartphone screen
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    News in-depthChinese business & finance
    Keep faith in China, Li Qiang tells business at ‘Summer Davos’

    Premier seeks to win over sceptical foreign investors despite tension over trade

    China’s Premier Li Qiang addresses the World Economic Forum in Dalian on Tuesday
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    China agrees to talks with EU over EV tariffs

    German minister Robert Habeck welcomes the move during visit to Beijing to soothe tensions

    German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Global InsightAndy Bounds
    The EU has a chicken feet problem with China

    A transformed trade relationship has left Europe’s farmers vulnerable to retaliation

    Free-range chickens
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Chinese economy
    China launches anti-dumping probe into EU pork imports

    Investigation comes after Brussels imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs as trade tensions rise

    Production manager Brian Nielsen checks sows at a breeding farm of Best Genetics Group, a Chinese pig breeding company in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    G7
    G7 threatens China with further sanctions over Russia war support

    Leaders accuse Beijing of ‘enabling’ Ukraine conflict and consider more confrontational stance on its economic policies

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with US President Joe Biden at the G7 summit in Italy on Thursday
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    BYD Co Ltd
    Shares of Buffett-backed BYD jump after EU unveils lower than expected tariff

    Stock of Tesla’s China rival rises as much as 9% following Brussels’ announcement of electric vehicle import duties

    Exterior of a BYD showroom in Shanghai
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Explainer
    What the EU’s tariffs on EV imports mean for China

    Brussels’ duties heighten trade tensions with Beijing but are unlikely to stop the advance of Chinese-made electric cars

    an EU flag superimposed on photograph of rows of new cars
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Trade disputes
    EU to hit Chinese electric cars with tariffs of up to 48%

    Brussels acts against imports it says are heavily subsidised by Beijing despite German warnings move could spark trade war

    People look at BYD’s Yangwang U8 SUV at the Geneva International Motor Show
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Trade disputes
    Brussels is gambling that tariffs on Chinese EVs are a prod, not a punch

    A little bit of trade war, as a treat

  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Supply chains
    European companies step up efforts to decouple from China

    Move comes as Brussels increases scrutiny of goods from world’s largest export economy

    Containers from China are taken between terminals in the Port of Duisburg, Germany
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the EU and Japan are uniting against Chinese competition Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Brussels warns major tech platforms to do more against Russian disinformation

    Kadri Simson
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    Yellen urges Europe to join US in Chinese exports crackdown

    Treasury secretary rejects Brussels claims of protectionist lurch by Washington

    Treasury secretary Janet Yellen
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why von der Leyen doesn’t want to join the US in a trade war with China Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: is Austria’s top green politician a compulsive liar?

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Trade disputes
    China retaliates against the US and EU with anti-dumping probe

    Tit-for-tat investigation into thermoplastics follows a pattern established during the Trump presidency

    A Chinese factory worker inspects a solar panel
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    How EU countries are pushing for further migration outsourcing Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: a Chinese proposal to defuse the trade tensions between Brussels and Beijing

    A sub-Saharan African migrant washes his clothes in a camp in Tunisia
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Trade disputes
    EU under pressure after US levies tariffs on Chinese goods

    Brussels scrambles to avoid being dragged into trade war between Washington and Beijing

    Geely electric vehicles bound for shipment to Europe at the Port of Taicang in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Sylvie Kauffmann
    European leaders need to wake up — the world has changed

    Germany in particular has been slow to come to terms with significant geopolitical and economic shifts

    Jean-Claude Juncker, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and Xi Jinping smile and talk in Paris in 2019
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    InterviewInfrastructure investment
    EU fighting to counter China’s influence in global south, says top official

    Bureaucracy and conditions attached to development finance allow Beijing to move faster

    Jutta Urpilainen
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    China makes Hungary a model for diplomatic ties in Europe

    Xi Jinping’s upgrade of ties with Budapest highlights Beijing’s willingness to reward loyalty with investment and trade

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at a restaurant table with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Martin Sandbu
    A missed opportunity for a China-EU grand bargain

    Differences over Russia and economic frictions cast a shadow across Xi Jinping’s tour of European capitals

    Two men hold umbrellas as they walk on the tarmac of an airport
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