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22nd Jun 2018
On the day it outlined its reaction to US tariffs on steel and aluminium, the EU commission also launched a case against China on property rights - an issue on which EU and US are working hand-in-hand.
Four steps towards making globalisation work better, and improving cooperation between China and the EU.
The EU should use its trade muscle to keep out hostile investors, the MEP behind a new screening mechanism aimed at China has said.
The EU has encouraged China to take a leading role in fighting the new US protectionism - but has also insisted that Beijing needs to reform and needs to be fairer to European investors and traders.
Superbugs already kill 25,000 Europeans each year, despite hospitals fighting to stop the antibiotic resistant bacteria from spreading. This week the Nordic Council lobbied Brussels to wake up.
In an exchange with the new Chinese ambassador to the EU - his first appearance at an EU institution - the EU Parliament international trade committee called for action to meet commitments to open up China's market and reduce overcapacity.
Six out of seven political parties running in Greenland's parliamentary elections on Tuesday are pro-independence, but they disagree on how fast the last ties to Copenhagen should be cut. Increasing dependence on China could be the consequence.
Reform and opening-up is a great process that has seen China and the world achieve development and progress together, with more than 700 million Chinese people lifted out of poverty, China's president Jinping told the Boao Forum for Asia.
Europe is "an ally, not a threat", the EU Commission says - as the US is poised to impose duties in steel and aluminium. Common action on Chinese steel overcapacity could help diffuse the crisis.
A Chinese business advisor to the Czech president has gone missing. The disappearance of one of the main conduits for Chinese investment into the Czech Republic leaves questions for Milos Zeman and his 'special relationship' with president Xi Jinping.
"We will not sit idly while our industry is hit with unfair measures", European Commission said after Trump announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium.
Some 500km of rails from Norway to Finland and a tunnel from Finland to Estonia are missing, but new prospects of Chinese funding are providing fresh impetus.
The UK prime minister spent three days in China trying to build post-Brexit economic perspectives for her country.
A new type of international relations is needed to advance China-EU relations to a new level, says the Chinese ambassador to the EU.
On his recent visit to China, the French president tried to take advantage of Beijing's 'divide and rule' EU approach and become the country's main interlocutor with Europe - while also calling for more EU coordination.
Europeans and Americans can together face the lack of transparency of the Chinese economy and its move away from liberalisation, says the US Treasury undersecretary.
An EU-China project on CO2 storage, dating back to 2005, has delivered few results, raising questions for cooperation in 2018.
The EU said its new anti-dumping rules do not target China, but states in a report that Beijing distorts the market significantly to export cheaper goods.
Four of the world's top ten internet and tech giants are Chinese - and the country is increasingly pivoting to innovation and digitalisation, rather than just being the workshop for US silicon valley products.
Germany's spy agency says the Chinese state is trying to recruit high-ranking German officials via social media outlets like LinkedIn. It accused Chinese intelligence of setting up fake profiles to lure them into becoming informants.
The flagship project of China's increased presence in central and eastern Europe was launched on Tuesday, following an EU probe as a summit in Budapest raises questions on Beijing's influence.
Summit in Budapest brings together leaders of China and sixteen central and eastern European countries, including eleven EU member states.
The "16+1" cooperation - an initiative to intensify and expand cooperation between China and 16 EU and Balkan countries - goes hand-in-hand with fostering closer China-Europe relations, says China's new ambassador to the EU.
Chinese investors are more positive and optimistic about prospects in the EU than their US and European counterparts, a new study has shown. And Brexit will not change that trend.
New EU anti-dumping rules aimed largely at China's practices on industries such as steel have already attracted the ire of some members of the World Trade Organisation.
Europe is an important partner as China forges ahead on a new journey in the 'new era'.
Under Xi Jinping's second term as leader, China wants more equality with the US and the EU, while waiting for Europeans to show their global clout.
The EU is requesting a status of observer at the Arctic Council, a regional forum in which Asian countries are already active.
All major European carmakers will be subject to new Chinese quotas, which require that by 2019, 10 percent of sold cars are hybrid or electric vehicles.
Chinese criticism of EU plans to screen foreign investors was "unreasonable" due to "lack of reciprocity", Europe's envoy to China has said.
European companies want Chinese leaders to be more open to foreign investment and live up to earlier pledges on free trade and globalisation against a more protectionist US.
The EU is to screen foreign investments to avoid takeovers in sensitive sectors. But the plan, mainly aimed at China, will raise political and technical difficulties.
