During his visit to China, which ended on Saturday 14 October (see EUROPE B13270AA17), the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, came back on the concept of “de-risking”, meaning reducing risks with regard to its rival and trading partner.
During the visit, he reiterated Europe’s position of reducing the risks associated with its trade dependencies, without “decoupling the European economy from the Chinese economy” (see EUROPE B13213A2).
He also spoke of the need to...