{"id":89294,"date":"2026-05-22T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/89294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:10:15","slug":"chinas-commerce-chief-wang-wentao-expected-in-brussels-on-june-29-and-30-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/89294\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s commerce chief Wang Wentao expected in Brussels on June 29 and 30: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commerce Minister Wang Wentao is expected in Brussels for crunch talks with EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic on June 29 and 30, as trade tensions between the sides threaten to reach fever pitch.<\/p>\n

Wang\u2019s trip \u2013 confirmed by people familiar with the planning \u2013 will come on the heels of several top-level debates in the Belgian capital about how the bloc should tackle the perceived threat of an industrial shock<\/a> to its economy attributed to China\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

Next week, the European Commission will hold an orientation debate on China policy, with trade officials expected to make the case for a new weapon to deal with the impact of Chinese overcapacity.<\/p>\n

And in June, China will be on the agenda of the European Council, made up of the EU\u2019s 27 member state leaders.<\/p>\n

They will be asked to approve a more assertive approach to Beijing, which could lead to an uptick in the use of emergency safeguard measures, as well as support for the new overcapacity instrument.<\/p>\n

\"CommerceCommerce Minister Wang Wentao. Photo: dpa<\/p>\n

Wang\u2019s trip has been expected in Brussels since the two officials met on the sidelines of the World Trade Organization\u2019s ministerial forum in Cameroon. In April, the South China Morning Post reported that he was to visit before the EU\u2019s summer break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commerce Minister Wang Wentao is expected in Brussels for crunch talks with EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[173,211,210,174,47284,327,47286,2610,3796,3229,31416,47283,40245,33342,47285,1530],"class_list":["post-89294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-beijing","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-commerce-minister-wang-wentao","tag-eu","tag-eu-chamber-of-commerce-in-china","tag-european-commission","tag-european-council","tag-european-parliament","tag-fudan-university","tag-he-yadong","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-jens-eskelund","tag-ling-ji","tag-maros-sefcovic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116616982118158626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}