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19 April 2017
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| China and the European Union (The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions) |
Top diplomats from China and the European Union pledged closer
cooperation Wednesday, highlighting their common interests in peace and
security and pushing a message of free trade and open engagement in contrast to
fears that the U.S. is turning inward under President Donald Trump.
The statements came as China and the EU held
their first high-level talks since Trump took office in January. EU foreign
policy chief Federica Mogherini co-chaired the Seventh EU-China Strategic
Dialogue with State Councilor Yang Jiechi, China's highest-ranking diplomat.
"At present, the international situation
is complex with many new developments, challenges and problems," Yang told
Mogherini at the outset.
"Against this backdrop, for China and
the EU to deepen cooperation and coordinate positions not only concerns the
common interests of the two sides, but also is of great significance for the
development of international political and economic relations," he added.
Mogherini said China and the EU had "a
big responsibility" during "times of uncertainty."
"We are looking forward to intensifying
our cooperation on a positive agenda, what the EU and China can do together for
the benefit not only of our citizens, but also of the world," Mogherini
said.
The two sides discussed rising tensions on
the Korean Peninsula as North Korea moves to accelerate its nuclear weapons
development, and the war in Syria.
Mogherini told reporters afterward that
ending the war in Syria is a priority, and she and Yang discussed at length how
to actively support the U.N.-led process while working to improve the
humanitarian access into the country. The
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The one-day talks come ahead of an EU-China
summit scheduled for Brussels in June.
On Tuesday, Mogherini met with Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang, who said that the international community was looking at
how China and the EU would work together to tackle challenges including the
world economic recovery, global conflicts and terrorism, and Britain's pending
withdrawal from the EU.
Li said he was optimistic about the outcome
of the talks based on "a stable China-EU relationship, with the
consistency of our two sides toward multilateralism and free trade, and with
our joint commitment to improving the international governance structure."
Unlike Trump, who was elected promising to
tear up trade deals, impose new tariffs and bring jobs back to America, Chinese
President Xi Jinping has cast his country as a champion of free trade and
stability, and spoken out against protectionism.
Mogherini said that such speeches by Xi
"have raised high expectations that China and the European Union can work
together on multilateralism, on rules-based global order" and trade.
"Not only our people, but probably the
multilateral system, need Europe and China to work together on some of the
major global issues we are facing, from climate change to migration or
counterterrorism, and also the many crises we have around us such as the
tensions on the Korean Peninsula," Mogherini told Li at the start of their
meeting.
Beijing and Brussels have disagreements on
trade, however, including complaints by European and other foreign companies
that they are blocked from acquiring Chinese assets while China's companies are
buying major global brands. They also say they are barred from or sharply
restricted in telecoms, information technology, finance and other promising
industries in violation of Beijing's free-trading pledges. The Total Investment & Insurance
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Beijing, meanwhile, wants the EU to grant it
market economy status, which would make it harder for the EU to impose punitive
tariffs on Chinese imports that it deems to be unfairly cheap.
Other points of dispute include China's
increasingly restrictive environment for civil society and internet censorship. The Total Investment & Insurance
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Mogherini's first meeting Wednesday, with
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, was canceled. A foreign ministry official
said the EU delegation had informed them that Mogherini was feeling unwell.
She will give a speech at Beijing's
prestigious Tsinghua University on Thursday, and then travel to India and Russia.The Total Investment & Insurance
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