Chinese students at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing put European trade commissioner Catherine Ashton through her paces on Wednesday (9 September), in a sign that a new generation of tough negotiators is waiting in the sidelines.
Ms Ashton is currently in China as a follow-up to the High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue (HED) discussions held in Brussels in May, a regular forum for EU-China trade meetings that was set up in 2007 and is co-chaired...
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