Josep Borrell, the EU’s Foreign Affairs Representative, has called for better coordination between EU institutions and member states regarding the common China policy. A cacophony must be avoided, Borrell stressed during the EU Parliament’s general debate on China policy in Strasbourg on Tuesday. He was not least referring to the heavily criticized external impact of the joint visit of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron. The EU foreign affairs representative spoke of coordination problems: „This could have been avoided.“