“Rebalancing our bilateral relation is essential… It is vital for China and Europe to acknowledge our respective concerns and come forward with real solutions.”

Xi put forward three proposals for the future of China-EU relations: both sides should uphold mutual respect and consolidate the positioning of their relations as partnership, embrace openness and cooperation while properly managing differences and frictions, and practice multilateralism and uphold international rules and order.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged top European Union officials on Thursday to “properly handle differences and frictions” as he criticized Brussels’s recent trade actions against Beijing at a tense s...

"How China continues to interact with Putin's war will be a determining factor for our relations going forward," von der Leyen told a news conference at the end of the summit.