Angela Merkel told the Bundestag that she would focus on EU-China relations during Germany’s EU presidency. Photo: EPA-EFE Angela Merkel told the Bundestag that she would focus on EU-China relations during Germany’s EU presidency. Photo: EPA-EFE
Angela Merkel told the Bundestag that she would focus on EU-China relations during Germany’s EU presidency. Photo: EPA-EFE
China /  Diplomacy

Angela Merkel to make relations with China top priority when Germany takes on EU presidency next year

  • Germany’s chancellor planning summit with Xi Jinping and all heads of government as bloc aims to present a ‘united front’ towards Beijing
  • Brussels has branded China a ‘strategic rival’, and diplomatic sources say bloc wants to show divide-and-rule approach will not work

Topic |   China-EU relations
Stuart Lau
Stuart Lau

Updated: 11:28pm, 17 Oct, 2019

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Angela Merkel told the Bundestag that she would focus on EU-China relations during Germany’s EU presidency. Photo: EPA-EFE Angela Merkel told the Bundestag that she would focus on EU-China relations during Germany’s EU presidency. Photo: EPA-EFE
Angela Merkel told the Bundestag that she would focus on EU-China relations during Germany’s EU presidency. Photo: EPA-EFE
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