Despite European protests at the slowness with which the Chinese market is opening up and distortions due to the massive intervention of the Chinese state, the European Union and China adopted a united front in support of multilateralism and free trade at the 20th summit in Beijing on Monday 16 July.
The leaders of the EU - the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker - and the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Keqiang,...