The EU has escalated two trade disputes with China by asking the World Trade Organization to convene panels to rule on them, in the first cases the bloc has brought against Beijing for at least three years, officials in Brussels said.
The first dispute concerns an alleged trade embargo on imports from Lithuania, sparked by a dispute over Vilnius’s relations with Taiwan. The second is about the protection of EU holders of high-technology patents.
The move comes at a time of increasing tensions between China and the EU, which is under pressure from the US to take a tougher line in trading relations with Beijing.
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