The list of results after the meeting between EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng is long. There even was no public outcry over the EU investigation into China’s alleged EV subsidies. However, the true atmosphere of the first face-to-face EU-China trade dialogue was difficult to read from the faces of […]
The list of results after the meeting between EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng is long. There even was no public outcry over the EU investigation into China’s alleged EV subsidies. However, the true atmosphere of the first face-to-face EU-China trade dialogue was difficult to read from the faces of […]
EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis has criticized trade with the People’s Republic as “very unbalanced” before meeting with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng. The EU’s trade deficit is currently almost 400 billion euros per year out of a total trade volume of 865 billion euros. The Latvian native said this in a speech in Shanghai […]
EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis has criticized trade with the People’s Republic as “very unbalanced” before meeting with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng. The EU’s trade deficit is currently almost 400 billion euros per year out of a total trade volume of 865 billion euros. The Latvian native said this in a speech in Shanghai […]
Niclas Kvarnstrom succeeds Gunnar Wiegand as the new director of the Asia Department of the European External Action Service (EEAS). This is not an easy job. Wiegand had helped shape the European Union’s policy for the region for over 30 years. His successor, Niclas Kvarnström, however, comes with the diplomatic skills necessary to fill Wiegand’s […]
The announcement of an EU investigation into potential anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese EVs was by far the biggest China-related bombshell dropped by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her State of the European Union speech. China was also mentioned directly or indirectly in other areas. Here’s an overview:
What would an invasion of Taiwan mean for the powerful financial hub of the USA? This is the question that representatives of the China Committee of the US House of Representatives are exploring in New York on Tuesday. The “Taiwan war game” with leaders from financial and business circles, as the Financial Times calls it, […]
The summit of the 20 important developed and emerging countries in India’s capital, New Delhi, was buzzing on all channels over the weekend. Together with the United States, India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the EU agreed to create a new transport corridor between India and Europe. The summit participants already agreed on […]
The tariff battle between the United States and China, which began in 2018, officially violated World Trade Organization (WTO) trade rules on both sides last month. In August, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body ruled that China’s “additional tariff measures” were inconsistent with several articles of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In all […]
Within the European External Action Service (EEAS), the pool of candidates to succeed Asia Director Gunnar Wiegand is shrinking. The current deputy Wiegand, Paola Pampaloni, the Swedish diplomat Niclas Kvarnström and the Latvian diplomat Baiba Braže are in the running for the position, EU sources confirmed on Thursday. Accordingly, a decision on the appointment is […]