The European Commission gave an assessment of the actions undertaken with China over the last two years, in its first report on the implementation of the "towards a global partnership with China" Communication of June 1998 (see our daily Bulletin of 9 September, p.9). Numerous projects have been put in place notably for the development of legal and trade expertise in China, but the "scope of future development still remains considerable", feels the Commission in the report handed to the...