China’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, praised the partnership between the EU and his country on Sunday 15 December.
“China and the EU have far more common denominators than differences and far more cooperation than competition”, he explained in a statement to the press on the margins of the ASEM summit, stating that the EU and China were “partners and not rivals”.
According to him, the two sides have similar or analogous views” whether on enhanced multilateralism,...