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The European Union and Chinese flags are displayed near the meetings where Chinese Foreign Minister Wang II met with the President of the European Council Antonio Costa in Brussels, Belgium on July 2, 2025.
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The American tariff saga has stolen global attention in trade tensions between China and the European Union now.
The allegations and investigations of each other’s trade practice have long been the main product of the EU-Kita Trade Relations, which underpin concern about how domestic economies can affect competing imports.
In recent weeks, EU restrictions on Chinese companies involved in state tenders on medical devices have quickly met with China introduced into such products. Separately, earlier this month, Beijing and Brussels entered into force, and Beijing and Brussels pleased each other’s criticism.
In general, the EU-Kita trade relations are now “quite poor”, according to Mark Julien, director of the Center for Asian Studies of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
“The fact that there was a sphere of excellent opportunities and enthusiasm for bilateral relations, it became more risks than the opportunity,” he said CNBC earlier this week.
Sour relationships
EU and China relations are hampered by many problems and risks, which are often associated with the face of economic positions, offered the Greeg stack, senior analyst at the Chinese Research Institute.
“The EU and China are widely referred to as the trajectory collision in terms of their problem of trade and industrial policy,” he said CNBC. The bones of the disorder include the challenge of China’s capacity and trade in Europe, a stack that is also the head of the Brussels Office of the Mercier Institute.
“An increasingly urgent need for Beijing to export is contrary to the EU’s necessity in defending its own industrial base,” he added.
China’s economy faces a break between its production and demand. It also fights sluggish growth, while exports, which has long increased the economy, was under pressure against the background of global trade tensions and less demand.
Julienne Ifri has also outlined a number of problems that make relations in the EU-kita complex, including an increasingly difficult setting for foreign companies operating in China and a growing trade deficit in Europe. In addition, he said that Beijing “armed” the trade to put pressure on Europe – as with the tariffs for cognac.
China first began investigating European cognac imports after the EU began clapping Chinese electric vehicles last year, creating steady competition for Europe’s alternatives.
American tariffs that affect the EU-China relationship
US President Donald Trump’s recent tariff regime may become an opportunity for China and the EU to improve its relationship, Julienne Ifri reports.
“This should have had a positive impact on bilateral relations, in the sense that – a clash of economic coercion with the United States – (EU and China) – may be expected to talk and compromise to maximize their trade relations against the background of the US tariff war,” he said.
It still needs to come true.
Jean-Mark Fene, a senior officer of the Institute of Geopolitics and Business Essec, suggested that one of the reasons for this failure could be that Beijing believes he came out in his first place in his trade drama with Washington.
“Thus, the need for the common front with the EU is less necessary,” said Fene. “In fact, the fear in Beijing is that the EU will make the alignment of the anti -Chinese line, which the US administration will bring on the sidelines of trade negotiations.”
Following the initial harsh escalation and tense negotiations, China and the USA confirmed A trading frame in June, including the provisions around the hot challenged Rare land and technological rules. Earlier this year, Beijing imposed export restrictions on several rare elements and magnets, which are often used in the automotive, protected and energy sectors in its reaction to the initial tariffs in the United States.
Light at the end of the tunnel?
The Stec Institute of the Mercier claimed that the decision “could hardly be found” on the prolonged trade points between Beijing and Brussels, instead of anticipating further questions.
“The problems with the excess of power and trade in Beijing’s readiness use rare earth export elements as a leverage in tariff tariffs at EV signals great turbulence,” he said.
Tensions compared to EU measures to enhance its autonomy and attempts China to prevent these efforts, you can also expect in accordance with STEC.
Fennet struck a similar skeptical tone.
“Significant approval of the European Commission positions and increase the power of the defense tools with which it has been equipped in recent years, in recent years it is likely that frictions will grow, as the latest measures have been taken against Chinese medical equipment, and as we undoubtedlyyou In Beijing, “he added.
His hopes for the summit – which sources said CNBC, will include a meeting between the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Chinese President Xi Jinping – also low.
“Both parties seem to be waiting for a difficult and probably an unconvincing meeting,” said Fene.
– Sylvia Omar CNBC contributed to this report.
