In January 2026, several European leaders visited China to deepen ties with the world’s second-largest economy, China and the European Union began to resolve long-standing electric vehicle disputes, ...

Low manufacturing costs in China are keeping many European businesses' supply chains in the country despite pressure in the EU to reduce overseas reliance.

The European left has never had one China. It has had several: China as the last great revolution still standing; China as a developmental state that appears to have escaped neoliberal decline; China ...

From left to right: António Costa (president of the European Council), Xi Jinping (president of the People’s Republic of China), and Ursula von der Leyen (president of the European Commission) at the ...

Sino-American diplomacy increasingly marginalizes outside actors, especially Europe. In June 2025, as Beijing and Washington sat down for their first round of trade talks in London, which ultimately ...

THE CHANCES of a trade war between the European Union and China are far higher than most Europeans realise. In the corridors of Brussels, insiders have theories to explain this calm. One involves a ...

In 1969, with the Cultural Revolution raging at home and tensions rising abroad, Chinese leader Mao Zedong instructed four elder military leaders to study the relationships between China and the world ...

As cheap goods pour in, threatening the continent’s manufacturing sector, a search for solutions is becoming increasingly urgent. By Jeanna Smialek and Alexandra Stevenson Jeanna Smialek reported from ...

The European Union-China summit on July 24 th, marking fifty years of diplomatic relations, could hardly be considered a happy anniversary. Aside from a limited joint statement on climate change, the ...

Once the go-to location for global drugmakers, Europe is losing market share to aggressive U.S. trade policies and China's growth as a biotech hub. Europe's share of global R&D has been cut in half ...