Cooperation with China on a number of global challenges is essential, said participants in a webinar organised by the employers’ federation BusinessEurope on Tuesday 20 September. The question that has been nagging at Europeans for several years, however, is how to cooperate with Beijing, which has been described as a systemic rival.
Reinhard Bütikofer (Greens/EFA, German) said that the EU must “engage” with China in order to hope to “cooperate” with it in the future. To do...