The EU has refused to hold a flagship economic meeting with Beijing ahead of a leaders’ summit next month because of a lack of progress on numerous trade disputes, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The bloc’s stonewalling of the talks, known as the EU-China High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue, underlines the deep divisions between the sides despite Beijing’s efforts to court Europe as a counterweight to the US amid President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
The economic dialogue often serves to lay groundwork for the EU-China leaders’ summit, which the people said was this year set for July 24-25 in Beijing. The leaders’ summit this year has particular diplomatic significance, marking 50 years of bilateral relations.
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