Published: July 20th, 2022,
Last updated: July 20th, 2022
After a break of almost two years, Brussels and Beijing have again exchanged views on trade issues in a separate dialogue format. EU Vice President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He discussed, among other things, supply bottlenecks due to the Covid pandemic, dependency on critical raw materials, and the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, human rights abuses in Xinjiang, which the European supply chain law aims to prosecute more severely, were not addressed, reports Amelie Richter. After the disastrous EU-China summit in April, the European side apparently wanted the trade dialogue to be constructive and to again find common ground.