The Chinese flag is draped beside the European Union flag during a EU-China Summit at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels. Photo: AFP

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A Chinese trade group has levied a formal grievance against EU trade practices, further complicating relations that have already reached their boiling point.

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Canada accused China of ‘anticompetitive practices’ as it announced it will launch a public consultation exploring potential tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. The only battery-powered car built in China and exported to Canada is Tesla’s Model Y.

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Chinese-made electric cars have a massive production cost advantage over their European rivals, which will allow them to gain market share despite the EU’s punitive tariffs

President also pledges to open Chinese market to more agricultural and food products from Poland and says Polish nationals will get 15-day visa-free entry to China.

In a step towards international certification for China’s C919 passenger jet, European officials will make a visit next month to get a closer look at the aircraft and its assembly.

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Chinese and European firms at a meeting this week ‘all opposed’ European Union tariffs on China’s electric vehicles, according to a social media account linked to state broadcaster CCTV.

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The provisional duties vary between 17 and 38 per cent depending on each carmaker’s level of cooperation with the European Commission’s anti-subsidy investigation. Here’s what you need to know.

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Though China’s export economy was once a reliable driver of economic growth, analysts have recommended against overreliance on those sectors as trade relations with the West become more volatile.

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Xu Lin said Western tariffs on Chinese exports could speed up ‘process of clearing up overcapacity in China’, meaning ‘survival of fittest’.

Readers discuss how anti-China trade measures threaten the world’s climate commitments, responsible tourism to Xiaohongshu hotspots, and Hong Kong’s most talked-about couple.

In ‘Lost Decade’, two prominent Washington analysts say a US ‘pivot to Asia’, originally undertaken in 2011, has failed and that renewing it is critical to stability with China.

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