Chinese officials have been in communication with their EU counterparts recently on a variety of issues. In the reports from China and from the EU, the substance of these meetings differs, especially in relation to the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), indicating different priorities of the two sides and

On June 22, the Administrative Court of Sweden issued a ruling that upheld a government ban on using Chinese tech company Huawei’s equipment in the country’s 5G network. In the ruling [https://www.domstol.se/en/nyheter/2021/06/forbudet-mot-produkter-fran-huawei-i-svenska-5g-nat-star-fast/] , the Administrative Court made it clear that it

The European Commission issued its internal Trade Policy Review [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2021/february/tradoc_159438.pdf] (COM(2021) 66 final) on February 18, 2020, setting out an “open, sustainable and assertive trade policy” to ensure “open and fair trade with well-functioning, diversified and sustainable global