{"id":553901,"date":"2025-11-06T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/553901\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:27:13","slug":"editorial-for-china-and-the-eu-finding-common-ground-is-worth-the-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/553901\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial | For China and the EU, finding common ground is worth the effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe and China have been struggling for years with a trade relationship frayed by deficits, disputes and de-risking. Ties have remained troubled despite progress made at a high-level China-European Union summit<\/a> in Beijing in July and last week\u2019s Sino-US presidential talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So it was encouraging to see the continued optimism of China\u2019s ambassador to France, who has been relaying Beijing\u2019s hopes that Paris can help lead the European Union towards a truly independent role in efforts to build a stable multipolar world.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Deng Li<\/a> told the Post that Europe should strive to be more than an economic and cultural power and become a political force contributing to global peace and stability. France holds the key, he said, as the EU nation with the strongest tradition of independence and autonomy.<\/p>\n

The 27-member bloc\u2019s 2019 designation of China as a \u201cpartner, competitor and systemic rival\u201d sent confusing messages and should not be a guiding policy. He called for a \u201cclear main direction\u201d and hoped Brussels would choose partnership as the focus of its relations with Beijing.<\/p>\n

Some of the trouble stems from EU members trying to align or stay ahead of US trade strategies and White House tariff threats. One notable low point has involved the Dutch government seizure<\/a> of the Chinese-owned, Netherlands-based Nexperia. The Hague took control of the semiconductor producer partly in response to the expansion of US export restrictions on blacklisted companies in September. Beijing responded with an export ban. Global supply chains, particularly those in the car industry, were left in limbo.<\/p>\n

Since then, Washington has suspended a \u201c50 per cent rule\u201d that triggered the seizure in the wake of US President Donald Trump\u2019s meeting with President Xi Jinping in South Korea. On Saturday, China\u2019s commerce ministry started engaging with European companies to restart the flow of semiconductors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe and China have been struggling for years with a trade relationship frayed by deficits, disputes and de-risking.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[177177,3801,11330,1395,177178,177176,177179,2000,299,5187,1699,36,92855,166325,1411,9041],"class_list":{"0":"post-553901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-ambassador-deng-li","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-brussels","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-china-european-union-summit","13":"tag-de-risking","14":"tag-disputes","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-ministry-of-commerce","21":"tag-nexperia","22":"tag-paris","23":"tag-ukraine-crisis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115505348329149214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553901","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=553901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}