While the EU acknowledges its differences with China, the bilateral summit scheduled for 24 July in Beijing does not promise any major progress on trade relations or on the EU’s security demands.
This event, cut short by China to a single day (see EUROPE B13674A3), is unlikely to produce any concrete results, as a European official made clear on Friday 18 July: “A good conversation, a good exchange, at the highest level, on all the subjects of interest and concern, is (already) ‘a...