Gesine Weber, you are PhD candidate at King's Collège in London, and researcher for the Paris office of the German Marshall Fund. And you have followed closely the recent EU-China summit in Beijing.
Yes, the first in-person summit since 2019, which took place on December 7 and 8.
From the beginning,
expectations were low: the relations between the EU and China are subject to increasing tensions. Everybody is nervous!
European policy-makers are concerned about the ties between China and Russia ties and the structural trade imbalances between China and Europe, while Beijing is worried about the EU’s agenda of “de-risking” and the potential challenges for China’s economic interests, such as access to the EU market...