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EU-China relations

  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    EU and China stand-off over climate action before Xi and von der Leyen meet

    Bloc pushes Beijing to make further cuts to emissions

    An attendant walks past flags of EU and China
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    EU spurns economic dialogue with China over deepening trade rift

    Talks to lay groundwork for leaders’ summit in Beijing next month derailed by escalating tensions

    A Chinese police officer stands in front of an EU flag
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    China fast tracks rare earth export licences for European companies

    Beijing has attempted to improve relations with Brussels since Donald Trump returned to the White House

    A port in Jiangsu province, China
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Cyber warfare
    Prague blames Beijing for cyber attack on foreign ministry

    Czech government says ‘malicious’ assault mounted by group linked to China’s state security ministry

    Pedestrians walk along a street near the entrance to the parliament in Prague in the Czech Republic
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Chinese direct investment in Europe rises for first time in seven years

    Report shows pivot to greenfield projects but €10bn FDI in 2024 still far below 2016 peak

    Chinese companies have pivoted from mergers and acquisitions to greenfield investments, such as CATL’s €7.5bn battery facility in Debrecen, Hungary
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    EU companies in China see some benefit from Trump’s trade war

    Survey finds high tariffs hurting European businesses but also offering chance to win market share from US rivals

    A worker pushes a cart of goods for export in a warehouse in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China in April 2025
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    China to lift sanctions on MEPs in bid to revive trade deal with EU

    Beijing steps up efforts to woo Brussels as 145% tariffs imposed by US seal off its biggest market

    European Union and Chinese flags in a row
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    China seeks reset with EU amid Trump’s trade war

    Beijing eyes rapprochement with Brussels to compensate for loss of US market but significant hurdles remain

    A montage of a shipping container being lifted by a crane in a port setting with the background split between the European Union flag on the left and the Chinese flag on the right
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
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    Trump’s tariff reversal

    US stocks surged on Wednesday after Donald Trump paused ‘reciprocal’ tariffs for 90 days

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    EU calls for ‘negotiated resolution’ with China in face of US tariffs

    Von der Leyen warns against diversion of Chinese exports to Europe in call with China’s premier

    Ursula von der Leyen and Li Qiang are depicted in a montage against a backdrop of shipping containers
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    Xi snubs EU-China anniversary summit

    Brussels sought visit to mark 50 years of ties, but move adds to scepticism about warm words from Beijing

    Xi Jinping, China’s president, left, and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, on screen via video conference
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Spain calls for EU to forge China policy without US

    ‘Europe must take its own decisions’, says foreign minister José Manuel Albares

    José Manuel Albares speaks in an interview
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    China appoints ‘wolf warrior’ ambassador to manage affairs with Europe

    Selection of blunt-talking Lu Shaye signals hardening of Beijing’s stance towards EU

    Lu Shaye standing with his hands clasped
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Europe Express
    How the EU could help stem the flow of illegal product imports Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Is sabotage behind Italy’s recent train disruptions?

    EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath
  • Sunday, 19 January, 2025
    EU should welcome Chinese car factories, says Mercedes chief

    Ola Källenius urges Brussels to drop protectionist approach in form of punitive tariffs on China EVs

    Ola Kallenius speaks during the Brussels Motor Show
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    IMF warns EU against state aid glut and ‘unilateral industrial policies’ Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: can Olaf Scholz lose a no-confidence vote?

    A 300 millimetre silicon wafer in the clean rooms at the Globalfoundries fabrication (fab) plant in Dresden, Germany
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Brussels hopes cracking down on China will also save EU industry Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Is EU drug policy fair to poorer states?

    Alexander De Croo, Teresa Ribera and Stéphane Séjourné wear safety hats at a steel plant in Belgium
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Kennedy injects uncertainty into big pharma

    Trump nominee's vaccine scepticism worries industry

  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Thyssenkrupp AG
    Thyssenkrupp to slash 40% of steel jobs in latest blow to German industry

    Division to shed 11,000 roles amid oversupply in Europe and rise in cheap China imports

    Emissions rise from Thyssenkrupp’s steel plant in Duisburg, Germany
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    EU to demand technology transfers from Chinese companies

    New requirements will apply to batteries but could be expanded to other green sectors

    Chinese electric cars before they are loaded on container ships
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    EU presses ahead with tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

    Levies totalling up to 45% needed to compensate for Beijing’s ‘injurious’ subsidies, says Brussels

    Workers assemble an electric vehicle vehicle frame at a Leapmotor factory in Jinhua, China
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    News in-depthGlobal trade
    Chinese imports damage ‘dignity’ of Italian tomato, says Mutti chief

    Boss of tomato sauce group urges Brussels to protect farmers hit by ‘unfair’ competition from China’s Xinjiang region

    An aerial view shows a tractor harvesting tomatoes
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    EU plywood dumping probe opens new front in China trade dispute

    Investigation into cheap wood exports follows producers’ claim the products originated in Russia

    A circular saw going through some plywood
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    China targets EU brandy imports with anti-dumping penalties

    Trade retaliation comes after bloc voted to approve steep tariff increases on Chinese electric cars

    Frederic Barbot, a producer of Cognac, smells a barrel of ageing cognac at Domaine Marcadier-Barbot in Segonzac, south-western France
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    EU member states agree to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

    China’s carmakers have been increasing market share in Europe

    New vehicles are being loaded on to special frame transports at the International Container Terminal in Taicang Port, Suzhou, China.
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