The Chinese flag is draped beside the European Union flag during a EU-China Summit at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels. Photo: AFP

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  • Diplomat’s revelation suggests halting of feud with Beijing over Vilnius permitting opening of controversially named Taiwanese office in its capital
  • Bilateral trade not fully restored, but it has been ‘more than compensated for’ through other Indo-Pacific countries, says Gabrielius Landsbergis

Beijing and Brussels are marking 20 years of their strategic partnership but two are odds over Chinese industrial subsidies and a blockade of a member state.

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The Conference Board think tank’s twice-yearly survey finds that confidence among dozens of polled CEOs has taken a big hit while Beijing struggles to stimulate the market and lure investors.

Passport holders from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia will benefit from the arrangement for the next 12 months.

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Russia’s invasion has limited shipment routes from China to Europe and raised interest in alternative and nascent routes – including across the choppy Caspian Sea. But relevant governments need to get on board.

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Anti-dumping duties of up to 24.2 per cent will be imposed on a product used to make plastic bottles following complaints European firms are being undercut.

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Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron also agree their top priority is to stop things deteriorating further, according to China’s state broadcaster.

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A failure do so means they should prepare for their businesses to be steamrollered by unfair Chinese competition, Ursula von der Leyen tells bloc’s 27 member states.

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Businesses from the European Union would like concepts like ‘important data’ and ‘personal information’, which appear frequently in China’s data laws, to be better defined.

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Fu Cong hits out at Brussels for characterising China as a ‘rival’ and says response to Israel-Gaza war shows how its values diverge from Global South’s.

The Critical Raw Materials Act was proposed in March to ensure the EU’s access to a sustainable supply of raw materials crucial to the digital, aerospace and defence sectors, and the green energy push.

Bloc’s top officials confirmed to meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang while concerns about Beijing subsidies and Ukraine support persist.

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Former top market regulator Bi Jingquan says China still ‘good place’ for investment and jobs, calls on those who left during pandemic to go back and ‘take a look’.

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Estonian cabinet has revised country’s approach to the island, allowing it to open the office in Tallinn, but foreign minister stresses that ‘we will not develop political relations with Taiwan’.

Arancha González, speaking on a visit to China, says one of the difficulties the bloc faces is ‘we don’t have enough people that understand how China operates’.

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The US-sanctioned Chinese region borders eight countries, including Russia, Pakistan and other trade partners that should benefit from a plan to create new manufacturing and innovation hubs in Xinjiang.

Chinese foreign minister calls for Paris to practise ‘true multilateralism’, while top French official Emmanuel Bonne says his country has ‘no intention’ of limiting China’s development.

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