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EU trade enforcers descend on Beijing demanding China fix ‘untenable’ imbalances (opens the original)
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Brussels officials hold talks in the Chinese capital as they seek a commitment to reduce surging exports to the bloc Later this month, the European Union’s top trade official, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, will follow Redonnet to the Chinese capital, she confirmed on Wednesday, as Brussels assesses whether Beijing is willing to make the sort of concessions that could see them avoid sliding into a damaging tit-for-tat exchange in the autumn. “We see an engaged China in these talks, but of course the chal
China’s trade grip tightens in Europe as clock ticks towards October deadline (opens the original)
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As Brussels continues its push to rebalance ties, the latest data show China’s trade surplus expanded over all but three EU members in July China extended its trade surplus over all but three EU members in July compared to a year earlier, calculations based on new Chinese customs figures showed. In some instances, the monthly swing was dramatic. China’s surplus with Sweden quadrupled, while for Malta it rose by 166.6 per cent. For Romania it expanded 94.4 per cent, and for Finland 93.7 per cent.
The Mistral paradox: Europe’s push for tech sovereignty relies on China’s Z.ai (opens the original)
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AI race contender’s decision to offer GLM-5.2 a sign of how European political and commercial incentives can pull in different directions Mistral’s model of choice is GLM-5.2, an open-weight large language model developed by Zhipu, also known as Z.ai, one of China’s six “AI tiger” companies, included since 2025 on the US’ entity list because of national security concerns regarding military modernisation. Despite a deluge of political chatter about creating a sovereign European AI offering, the b
China blocks firms from aiding EU’s JD.com probe as regulatory clash deepens (opens the original)
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Chinese justice and commerce ministries order the ban in a joint statement condemning ‘undue extraterritorial jurisdiction measures’ A statement from China’s Ministry of Justice on Wednesday condemned the probe as “undue extraterritorial jurisdiction measures”, ordering that “no organisation or individual may execute or assist in the execution”. It marked the latest in a succession of inquiries opened under the FSR, a competition sector tool that requires companies under investigation to hand ov
Can Europe stay united in China trade battle? Ceuta crisis offers a warning (opens the original)
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The recent row over migration and Spain’s border policy suggests it may be hard for the bloc to stand together under pressure from Beijing “We had a real-time test of what happens when one member state was under coercion,” said Alberto Rizzi, a Rome-based policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, specialising in geoeconomics. “Everybody was very quick to jump on that.” The crisis was sparked on July 30, when an estimated 72,000 mainly Moroccan migrants surged into Ceuta, a Span
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