{"id":35502,"date":"2026-09-02T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/35502\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:29:12","slug":"eu-trade-enforcers-descend-on-beijing-demanding-china-fix-untenable-imbalances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/35502\/","title":{"rendered":"EU trade enforcers descend on Beijing demanding China fix \u2018untenable\u2019 imbalances"},"content":{"rendered":"

A delegation from the European Commission has been locked in talks with Chinese officials in Beijing, as the sides<\/a> look to find a diplomatic off-ramp from a looming trade war before an October deadline set by Brussels.The EU<\/a> team was spearheaded by Denis Redonnet, the bloc\u2019s top trade enforcement officer, who was recently made point person on China trade policy \u2013 a recognition that in EU circles, talk of partnership has largely been usurped by rivalry and competition.<\/p>\n

Later this month, the European Union\u2019s top trade official, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, will follow Redonnet to the Chinese capital, she confirmed on Wednesday, as Brussels assesses whether Beijing is willing to make the sort of concessions that could see them avoid sliding into a damaging tit-for-tat exchange in the autumn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see an engaged China in these talks, but of course the challenges are very, very significant,\u201d Jorgensen told a hearing at the European Parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The commission wants Beijing to commit to reducing its surging exports<\/a> to the bloc, which have expanded at breakneck speed in recent months. In July alone, China extended its trade surplus over all but three EU members compared with a year earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we see in relation to China is \u2026 increasing concentration dependencies, including in strategic sectors \u2013 that is a risk to the EU,\u201d Jorgensen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A delegation from the European Commission has been locked in talks with Chinese officials in Beijing, as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[954,11696,18,400,15944,11845,381,277,125,172,251,19035,3576,300,14408],"class_list":["post-35502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-beijing","tag-belt-and-road-initiative","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-denis-redonnet","tag-ditte-juul-jorgensen","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-maros-sefcovic","tag-medef","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-wang-wentao"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117200982339180185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}