The European Council, held in Brussels on Thursday, 21 and Friday, 22 March, offered the Twenty-Eight the opportunity to hold a discussion in order to define a coherent European line towards China. Ten days after the European Commission published a new European strategy on China, which aims to be "realistic, assertive and multifaceted" (see EUROPE B12212A20), European leaders called on Beijing to provide concrete evidence of its commitment to more reciprocal relations.
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