EU leaders call for end to 'naivety' in relations with China
(VOVWORLD) - EU leaders called for an end to naivety on Friday in relations with Beijing and said China was a competitor whose markets were not sufficiently open.
 French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to reporters in Brussels on March 22 after a meeting of European head of states (Photo: Reuters) |
The bloc has sought to avoid taking sides in a multi-billion dollar trade war between Washington and Beijing, but it has become increasingly frustrated by subsidies and state involvement in the Chinese economy, and what it sees as a slow pace of opening up. EU plans to raise these issues at an EU-China summit on April 9 after years of granting China almost unfettered access to EU markets.