The European Union welcomed the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (CAI) with China on 30 December as the German Presidency of the EU Council ended the following day. After 7 years of negotiations and an acceleration in recent weeks, the two sides have managed to agree on a text. For the EU, this result is the most ambitious commitment China has ever shown.
Market access. Indeed, China has agreed to remove barriers to foreign investment in several sectors. It has, for...