{"id":103548,"date":"2025-05-15T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103548\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:53:09","slug":"china-urges-a-more-fair-business-environment-in-france-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103548\/","title":{"rendered":"China urges a &#8216;more fair&#8217; business environment in France | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121189595.jpg\" alt=\"China urges a 'more fair' business environment in France\" title=\"Representative AI image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Chinese vice premier He Lifeng called Thursday for &#8220;a more fair, just and predictable business environment&#8221; in France during talks with finance minister Eric Lombard in Paris.He made the comments during a visit to France amid trade tensions between the European Union and China.&#8221;(We) look forward to France providing a more fair, just and predictable business environment,&#8221; He said at the start of the meeting with Lombard.The vice premier added that Beijing &#8220;welcomes French enterprises to increase their investments in China&#8221; and encourages Chinese companies to &#8220;invest and do business in France&#8221;.The EU has imposed hefty tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars after a probe found Chinese state subsidies were undercutting European automakers.China has imposed anti-dumping measures on EU brandy, hitting France&#8217;s cognac industry.Lombard said after the meeting that no resolution regarding cognac exports had been reached.The discussions &#8220;didn&#8217;t result in a definitive solution of the dispute&#8221;, he said, adding &#8220;the door remains open&#8221; for further talks.China is a major market for French cognac, with exports worth 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion) per year. The anti-dumping measures are costing the industry 50 million euros per month.French President Emmanuel Macron had said Tuesday that he was &#8220;reasonably optimistic&#8221; about negotiations on cognac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese vice premier He Lifeng called Thursday for &#8220;a more fair, just and predictable business environment&#8221; in France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[40405,47729,2000,47730,299,47728,36,47731,47727],"class_list":{"0":"post-103548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-cloudservicebaseresponse-data-children-metainfofieldsid17","9":"tag-chinese-investments-in-france","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-eu-tariffs-on-chinese-goods","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-fair-business-environment","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-french-cognac-exports","16":"tag-valuechina-france-trade-relations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114511951299276614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}