{"id":232925,"date":"2025-07-02T20:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232925\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:51:10","slug":"whats-bringing-china-and-the-eu-closer-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232925\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s bringing China and the EU closer? | European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two sides are marking 50 years of relations this month, holding talks and pledging deeper cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">China and the European Union are marking 50 years of diplomatic relations this month. At the core of their partnership is trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They are the second and third biggest economies in the world after the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Chinese foreign minister is visiting EU headquarters this week as he seeks closer ties in what he has called a \u201cvolatile\u201d world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Under President Donald Trump, the US has increasingly turned to sweeping tariffs to get what it wants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although Beijing and Brussels are hoping to improve their economic ties, they have disagreements on a number of issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So what will that mean for global trade and the economic order?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Karel Lannoo \u2013 CEO, Centre for European Policy Studies<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Victor Gao \u2013 vice president, Center for China and Globalisation<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Raffaele Marchetti \u2013 director, Center for International and Strategic Studies at LUISS University in Rome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two sides are marking 50 years of relations this month, holding talks and pledging deeper cooperation. China&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11410,12633,1395,32,1700,2000,299,5187,1699,3058,10471,10472,49,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-232925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-business-and-economy","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-international-trade","18":"tag-show-types","19":"tag-tv-shows","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-us-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114785621614890687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232925","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=232925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}