Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang will meet top EU officials in a summit in Brussels on Tuesday. Ahead of that Li wrote in German newspaper Handelsblatt, saying that China was ready to work closely with the EU on climate change, sustainable development, preserving the Iran nuclear deal and fighting terrorism. But China is only willing to exchange views on WTO reforms.
EU, on the other hand, is said to known to be concerned with the unfair trade practices with this systemic rival. In particular, there is no binding commitments from China in key areas, including inclusion of state subsidies on enterprises as part of WTO reforms. And European Council President Donald Tusk was said as objecting to a joint statement for the summit, as China has not delivered on key EU expectations and demands.
The expectations on the summit are generally low.
