Xi Jinping, in first talk with new European Council president, seeks more EU-China cooperation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "China has confidence in the EU and hopes that the EU can also become a partner that China can trust," he added.
61% : According to Beijing's account, Xi told Costa that "China has always believed that Europe is an important pole in a multipolar world and supports European integration and the strategic autonomy of the European Union".
48% : Photo: EPA-EFE>There was no such summit last year, mainly due to EU elections.
48% : The EU and its member states grew increasingly uncomfortable, meanwhile, with the nature of Beijing's support for Moscow, contending, for example, that a drone factory in Xinjiang was producing military craft to be used by Russia forces in Ukraine.
47% : On trade, Xi said that China and the EU were "defenders of the multilateral trading system and have formed a strong economic symbiotic relationship", but did not refer to the many grievances in the trading relationship, which have become a source of severe bilateral tension in recent years.
46% : It also comes less than a week before Donald Trump returns as US president, which is expected to add fresh wrinkles to already-fraught EU-China ties.
45% : Chinese firms were added to EU sanctions and export controls lists for their role in the war over the course of last year, while Scandinavian and Baltic countries have become anxious at Chinese-linked ships' involvement in several instances of undersea cable sabotage in the region.
32% : The EU's investigation into China's subsidies in its electric vehicle sector, and subsequent anti-subsidy duties slapped on the import of Chinese EVs, have threatened to bubble over into a broader trade war.

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