High officials of the European Union are making plans to visit China for a meeting with President Xi Jinping, reports the South China Morning Post, A sign that Brussels might be interested in developing better bonds with Beijing in the middle of the tariff avalanche of the Trump administration.
The trip would take place at the end of July, according to Friday a newspaper by Hong Kong, citing five people familiar with the matter. The last summit between both parties was held in China, so that EU officials break the protocol with this new visit, indicating their interest in addressing commercial issues. In normal circumstances, a Chinese delegation would visit Europe.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, have agreed to celebrate the summit in Beijing.
On the other hand, China and the European Union are starting conversations destined to end the tariffs of the block on the electric vehicles of the Asian nation, according to the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
President Donald Trump has left officials from all over the world struggling to discover how to deal with his “reciprocal tariffs”which paused this week for 90 days while the markets fell.
The ties between Europe and China have been tense since the large -scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in early 2022. Brussels has been annoying because Beijing has diplomatically supported Moscow while strengthening commercial ties, although China has repeatedly said that it wants a peaceful solution to the conflict.
During a call on Tuesday, Chinese prime minister, Li Qiang, told von der read that his nation He had the political tools to “completely compensate” any negative external shock and reiterated his optimism about the growth of the second largest economy in the world in 2025.
