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Published: 6:37pm, 4 Jul, 2023 Updated: 6:48pm, 4 Jul, 2023
Josep Borrell is the EU foreign affairs and security policy chief as well as a vice-president of the European Commission. He had been due to visit China in April but had to cancel after he caught Covid. Photo: EPA-EFE
The ’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, is due to arrive in China on Monday, three months after a bout of Covid forced a cancellation.
The foreign and security policy chief will meet Foreign Minister Qin Gang and other senior Chinese officials, the EU envoy to Beijing said in announcing the trip, but did not clarify how long it would last.
Borrell will be visiting to take part in high-level l bilateral strategic dialogue, ambassador Jorge Toledo said, adding that Brussels wanted to engage on all issues with Beijing, including “partnership”, “competition” and “systemic rivalry”.
Differences over the , the lack of progress in trade dialogues and human rights concerns were among the issues, he said.
“This will be the place to raise all these issues, especially the strategic issues that we have with China,” Toledo said on the sidelines of the 11th in Beijing on Sunday.
Jorge Toledo has criticised the lack of “substantial progress” in economic and trade talks with China. Photo: EPA-EFE
Borrell, who is also a vice-president of the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, had been due to visit Beijing from April 13 to 15, soon after commission head Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron, but tested positive for Covid-19.
His rescheduled trip comes close on the heels of a visit to Beijing by the EU’s top climate official and commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans, who arrived for a two-day trip on Monday. Timmermans also had to due to Covid-19.
He met Beijing’s special envoy for climate change Xie Zhenhua on Monday, and joined Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang the next day to co-chair the first in-person, high-level bilateral dialogue on climate and the environment since the pandemic.
The high-level EU visits come as China focuses on developing European ties amid growing pressure from the US. But the bloc’s new playbook on China does not sit well with Beijing.
On Friday, just before the visits by Timmermans and Borrell, the European Council affirmed the bloc’s “multifaceted” approach towards China, labelling it as “simultaneously a partner, a competitor and a systemic rival”.
Leaders from the 27 member states also agreed to continue to where necessary and appropriate, but not to decouple from what is the world’s No 2 economy.
Speaking on the same panel as Toledo on Sunday, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ international studies director, Zhou Hong, said de-risking and decoupling involved just “playing with words” for a policy essentially “moving in the same direction”.
She also criticised Brussels for positioning the China-EU relationship as a systemic rivalry, calling it “a backward step”.
Toledo argued that the notion was a description of fact: “Not only do we have different policies [and] political systems, but also … China has changed in the last few years”.
He said the systemic rivalry was reflected in many international issues including the war in Ukraine, which was “extremely important and consequential” for the EU-China relationship.
“We think that China [as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council], has a special responsibility and that you cannot be neutral in the face of a war of aggression.”
China’s ambiguous stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a major sticking point in its relationship with the EU. When Macron and von der Leyen visited in April, they urged Beijing to use its influence with Moscow to help end the war.
The EU also has systemic issues with China over , Toledo said, adding that Brussels would continue to raise these points.
He also criticised the lack of “substantial progress” in economic and trade talks with China over the last four years.
He said high-level economic and digital dialogues coming up in September would have to lay the groundwork for the EU-China summit – a regular dialogue mechanism between the Chinese premier and the heads of the European Commission and European Council.
The last two summits, both held virtually, failed to produce a joint statement.
“We will need progress on those dialogues to end up with the first in-person EU-China summit [since the pandemic] at the end of this year,” Toledo said. “We want it to be a summit with deliverables.”
Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell to visit China, ‘meet Foreign Minister Qin Gang’
- Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is due to arrive on Monday, EU ambassador Jorge Toledo tells Beijing forum
- China is focusing on EU ties to offset US pressure, but bloc’s ‘de-risking’ push and differences over Ukraine war remain major sticking points
Published: 6:37pm, 4 Jul, 2023 Updated: 6:48pm, 4 Jul, 2023
Josep Borrell is the EU foreign affairs and security policy chief as well as a vice-president of the European Commission. He had been due to visit China in April but had to cancel after he caught Covid. Photo: EPA-EFE
The ’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, is due to arrive in China on Monday, three months after a bout of Covid forced a cancellation.
The foreign and security policy chief will meet Foreign Minister Qin Gang and other senior Chinese officials, the EU envoy to Beijing said in announcing the trip, but did not clarify how long it would last.
Borrell will be visiting to take part in high-level l bilateral strategic dialogue, ambassador Jorge Toledo said, adding that Brussels wanted to engage on all issues with Beijing, including “partnership”, “competition” and “systemic rivalry”.
Differences over the , the lack of progress in trade dialogues and human rights concerns were among the issues, he said.
“This will be the place to raise all these issues, especially the strategic issues that we have with China,” Toledo said on the sidelines of the 11th in Beijing on Sunday.
Jorge Toledo has criticised the lack of “substantial progress” in economic and trade talks with China. Photo: EPA-EFE
Borrell, who is also a vice-president of the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, had been due to visit Beijing from April 13 to 15, soon after commission head Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron, but tested positive for Covid-19.
His rescheduled trip comes close on the heels of a visit to Beijing by the EU’s top climate official and commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans, who arrived for a two-day trip on Monday. Timmermans also had to due to Covid-19.
He met Beijing’s special envoy for climate change Xie Zhenhua on Monday, and joined Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang the next day to co-chair the first in-person, high-level bilateral dialogue on climate and the environment since the pandemic.
The high-level EU visits come as China focuses on developing European ties amid growing pressure from the US. But the bloc’s new playbook on China does not sit well with Beijing.
On Friday, just before the visits by Timmermans and Borrell, the European Council affirmed the bloc’s “multifaceted” approach towards China, labelling it as “simultaneously a partner, a competitor and a systemic rival”.
Leaders from the 27 member states also agreed to continue to where necessary and appropriate, but not to decouple from what is the world’s No 2 economy.
Speaking on the same panel as Toledo on Sunday, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ international studies director, Zhou Hong, said de-risking and decoupling involved just “playing with words” for a policy essentially “moving in the same direction”.
She also criticised Brussels for positioning the China-EU relationship as a systemic rivalry, calling it “a backward step”.
Toledo argued that the notion was a description of fact: “Not only do we have different policies [and] political systems, but also … China has changed in the last few years”.
He said the systemic rivalry was reflected in many international issues including the war in Ukraine, which was “extremely important and consequential” for the EU-China relationship.
“We think that China [as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council], has a special responsibility and that you cannot be neutral in the face of a war of aggression.”
China’s ambiguous stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a major sticking point in its relationship with the EU. When Macron and von der Leyen visited in April, they urged Beijing to use its influence with Moscow to help end the war.
The EU also has systemic issues with China over , Toledo said, adding that Brussels would continue to raise these points.
He also criticised the lack of “substantial progress” in economic and trade talks with China over the last four years.
He said high-level economic and digital dialogues coming up in September would have to lay the groundwork for the EU-China summit – a regular dialogue mechanism between the Chinese premier and the heads of the European Commission and European Council.
The last two summits, both held virtually, failed to produce a joint statement.
“We will need progress on those dialogues to end up with the first in-person EU-China summit [since the pandemic] at the end of this year,” Toledo said. “We want it to be a summit with deliverables.”
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With everyone visiting Beijing, the gardener feels he's missing out and wants in on the party.
Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell to visit China, ‘meet Foreign Minister Qin Gang’
- Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is due to arrive on Monday, EU ambassador Jorge Toledo tells Beijing forum
- China is focusing on EU ties to offset US pressure, but bloc’s ‘de-risking’ push and differences over Ukraine war remain major sticking points
Published: 6:37pm, 4 Jul, 2023 Updated: 6:48pm, 4 Jul, 2023
Josep Borrell is the EU foreign affairs and security policy chief as well as a vice-president of the European Commission. He had been due to visit China in April but had to cancel after he caught Covid. Photo: EPA-EFE
The ’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, is due to arrive in China on Monday, three months after a bout of Covid forced a cancellation.
The foreign and security policy chief will meet Foreign Minister Qin Gang and other senior Chinese officials, the EU envoy to Beijing said in announcing the trip, but did not clarify how long it would last.
Borrell will be visiting to take part in high-level l bilateral strategic dialogue, ambassador Jorge Toledo said, adding that Brussels wanted to engage on all issues with Beijing, including “partnership”, “competition” and “systemic rivalry”.
Differences over the , the lack of progress in trade dialogues and human rights concerns were among the issues, he said.
“This will be the place to raise all these issues, especially the strategic issues that we have with China,” Toledo said on the sidelines of the 11th in Beijing on Sunday.
Jorge Toledo has criticised the lack of “substantial progress” in economic and trade talks with China. Photo: EPA-EFE
Borrell, who is also a vice-president of the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, had been due to visit Beijing from April 13 to 15, soon after commission head Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron, but tested positive for Covid-19.
His rescheduled trip comes close on the heels of a visit to Beijing by the EU’s top climate official and commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans, who arrived for a two-day trip on Monday. Timmermans also had to due to Covid-19.
He met Beijing’s special envoy for climate change Xie Zhenhua on Monday, and joined Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang the next day to co-chair the first in-person, high-level bilateral dialogue on climate and the environment since the pandemic.
The high-level EU visits come as China focuses on developing European ties amid growing pressure from the US. But the bloc’s new playbook on China does not sit well with Beijing.
On Friday, just before the visits by Timmermans and Borrell, the European Council affirmed the bloc’s “multifaceted” approach towards China, labelling it as “simultaneously a partner, a competitor and a systemic rival”.
Leaders from the 27 member states also agreed to continue to where necessary and appropriate, but not to decouple from what is the world’s No 2 economy.
Speaking on the same panel as Toledo on Sunday, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ international studies director, Zhou Hong, said de-risking and decoupling involved just “playing with words” for a policy essentially “moving in the same direction”.
She also criticised Brussels for positioning the China-EU relationship as a systemic rivalry, calling it “a backward step”.
Toledo argued that the notion was a description of fact: “Not only do we have different policies [and] political systems, but also … China has changed in the last few years”.
He said the systemic rivalry was reflected in many international issues including the war in Ukraine, which was “extremely important and consequential” for the EU-China relationship.
“We think that China [as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council], has a special responsibility and that you cannot be neutral in the face of a war of aggression.”
China’s ambiguous stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a major sticking point in its relationship with the EU. When Macron and von der Leyen visited in April, they urged Beijing to use its influence with Moscow to help end the war.
The EU also has systemic issues with China over , Toledo said, adding that Brussels would continue to raise these points.
He also criticised the lack of “substantial progress” in economic and trade talks with China over the last four years.
He said high-level economic and digital dialogues coming up in September would have to lay the groundwork for the EU-China summit – a regular dialogue mechanism between the Chinese premier and the heads of the European Commission and European Council.
The last two summits, both held virtually, failed to produce a joint statement.
“We will need progress on those dialogues to end up with the first in-person EU-China summit [since the pandemic] at the end of this year,” Toledo said. “We want it to be a summit with deliverables.”
and China promptly cancel the Borell's invitation to the jungle. China does not need silly talk.
China cancels planned trip by Borell
At the rate things are going they'll be branded an authoritarian hell hole and there will be news coverage of the Bern Dogmeat Festival.
Borrell: bu-bu-but my gardening supplies
