EU chief says ties with China in “fracture”

The EU-Kita’s relationship reached the “spread point”, President of the European Commission Ursul von der Leyen told her Chinese colleague Xi Jinping at a one-day summit in Beijing.

“As our cooperation deepened, the same is the imbalance,” said von der Leyen, citing a huge European Union’s trade deficit with China. She also warned that China’s ties with Russia were a “decisive factor” in its relations with the EU.

XI called on EU leaders to “properly manage the differences”, saying that “modern problems facing Europe are not from China.”

Earlier this year there were proposals that Trump’s presidency could help the EU and China find a common cause, but instead the connection became richer.

27 EU member states coincide with the same pressure to China, not least tariffs imposed on their exports to the United States.

But despite this, the expectations were low, which would be significant from the summit, which at the request of Beijing was halved by one day.

During the meeting in the Big Hall of Beijing People, von der Leyen and the President of the European Council Antonio Costa called on both sides to find “real solutions”.

“It is vital for China and Europe,” said von der Leyen.

XI Called for “mutual trust” with the EU countries at the meeting, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

“Increasing the competitiveness (does not come from) construction walls or barriers, since the junction and rupture of the supply chains will only lead to self-posting,” he said.

Last year, the EU recorded a $ 305.8 billion trade deficit ($ 360 billion.

EU criticized China for industrial excess and imposed Tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

Balancing involves increasing market access for European companies in China, reducing export control and limiting the influence of excess, said von der Leyen.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said after the meeting that Beijing was ready to work with the relevant countries to “improve the export control dialog”.

Von der Leyen and Costa also stated that they pressed China to use their influence to convince Russia to stop their war in Ukraine.

“The way China continues to interact with Putin’s war will become a decisive factor for our relationship,” said von der Leyen at a press conference at the end of the summit.

Shortly after his arrival in Beijing, von der Leyen called the summit as an opportunity for both parties to “promote and balance” his relationship.

“I am convinced that there may be mutually beneficial cooperation … What can determine the next 50 years of our relationship,” she wrote on X.

Her words repeated the image of Hope that both sides were forecast ahead of the summit. EU officials said they are ready for open conversations, while Chinese officials have made it as a chance for greater cooperation.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that bilateral relations were at the “critical stage of creating past achievements and opening a new chapter at the beginning of the week.

But SI decision will reject the invitation to Brussels earlier this year, and then appears in Moscow in May at the annual Victory Parade in World War II, made for a bad start.

Engin Eroglu, headed by the Chinese delegation of the European Parliament, believes that the delicate trust between China and the EU has reached a new minimum: “In this atmosphere strategic distrust the mood is clearly tense – if not frosty.”

One of the main things that led to a deterioration of relations between the two giants is the issue of war in Russia-Ukraine.

Last week, the EU decision imposing sanctions on two Chinese banks for their role in Russian supplies annoyed by Beijing on the eve of this summit and created for an uncomfortable climate.

China has stated that ahead of the head of trade in trade chiefs as the top of the head of trade.

And he reports that this month, Chinese Foreign Minister Van YI told EU foreign policy chief Kaj Kalas that Beijing did not want to see Russia losing war in Ukraine – contradicts China’s official stance – it also spreads.

Van reportedly said the Russian war -Ukraine would be distracted by the rivalry with China – what Beijing refused.

Earlier this year, Kalas called China a “key inclusion of war in Russia” in Ukraine, adding that “if China wants to really stop support, it will have an influence.”

Trade relations were the main ones in EU problems.

After the EU imposed tariffs on Chinese electric cars last year, Beijing made retail on European alcohol.

And this month, Beijing restricted state -owned EU medical purchases – an EU’s response, introducing similar restrictions on Chinese medical equipment in June.

And perhaps more importantly, China also raised export control on rare lands and critical minerals this year, and background der Leyen’s commission accused Beijing of using his “quasi-monopolia” on the world market as weapons to blow competitors in key areas.

Europe is already disappointed, seeing that its branches are threatened with cheap subsidized Chinese goods.

In a preliminary interview with the Chinese state information item, the Chinese Ambassador to the European Union CAI Run adopted the issue of China’s positioning as “cooperation partner, economic competitors.”

“In the three -time China’s arrangement in the EU, it looks like the light, which goes green, amber and red lights at once. Not only can it not direct the movement, but only creates difficulties and obstacles.”