{"id":284203,"date":"2025-07-23T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284203\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:46:10","slug":"china-eu-discussed-trade-cooperation-issues-ahead-of-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284203\/","title":{"rendered":"China, EU discussed trade cooperation, issues ahead of summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BEIJING (Reuters) -China&#8217;s commerce minister and the European Union&#8217;s trade chief had a &#8220;candid and in-depth&#8221; discussion on economic and trade cooperation as well as other issues that both sides face, the Chinese ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The call comes days before the China-EU summit on Thursday in Beijing, when EU leaders plan to press China on rare earth supplies and the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic spoke over a video call on Tuesday, during which Wang also conveyed solemn representations on the EU&#8217;s listing of two Chinese banks under its sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">China has called the EU&#8217;s accusations against the two financial institutions &#8220;groundless&#8221; and said it opposes the unilateral sanctions that lack basis in international law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Liz Lee and Xiuhao Chen; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Kim Coghill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (Reuters) -China&#8217;s commerce minister and the European Union&#8217;s trade chief had a &#8220;candid and in-depth&#8221; discussion on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1395,103012,2000,299,5187,1699,71482],"class_list":{"0":"post-284203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-commerce-minister","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-wang-wentao"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114900499443477400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284203","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=284203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}