With the US, its closest ally, treating it as a threat to national security, the EU is looking more and more to China to maintain a rules-based world order.
In Beijing on Monday (16 July), the EU and China committed to conclude as quickly as possible a bilateral agreement on investment and to increase cooperation on global issues.
"China is a strategic partner," Jo Leinen, the chairman of the European Parliament delegation for relations with China, told EUobserver.
But withi...
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