A secret Russian document shows that, even as the two countries grow closer, counterintelligence agents have deep concerns about China.

Seeking détente with China, therefore, is still a dangerous game for the EU. Instead, the EU must realize it has other cards to play, including forging more advantageous trade agreements elsewhere in the world and changing China’s calculus about supporting Russia.

China’s commerce ministry said talks with the European Union on setting minimum prices for Chinese-made electric vehicles have “entered final stages,” although more work is required to reach a deal.

China and France have agreed to resolve their trade disputes through dialogue, China's foreign ministry said on Friday, though there was no indication that agreement had been reached in talks on lifting Chinese levies on European brandy.

To try to convince merchants in China to refocus on European consumers, Shein, Temu and TikTok turned to the same tactics they used to build their markets in the US, spending heavily on advertising and subsidies to sellers and customers.

After Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, European countries are braced for a flood of Chinese goods that might not come.

"We are in a new era of asset vulnerability," said John Hemmings, the Council on Geostrategy's deputy director for geopolitics.

China EU relations. China-EU economic and trade relations have lately displayed a complex dynamic. While the EU has introduced some policy measures to restrict market access for C