BRUSSELS—The European Commission has dialed down efforts to promote its planned investment agreement with China, recognizing that EU lawmakers will not approve any such deal while Beijing maintains sanctions on five of their colleagues. The Commission said in a statement on Wednesday the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI) could not be divorced from other EU-Chinese…

The European Commission has parked efforts to ratify a controversial investment deal with China, after tit-for-tat sanctions imposed over human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, the EU’s top trade official said on May 4. “We now in a sense have suspended … political outreach activities from the European Commission side,” Valdis Dombrovskis, EU trade…

Commentary The EU’s policy toward China is at a historic crossroads, and at times, swinging from side to side and contradicting itself, as revealed by the important events that have occurred recently. On March 25, Biden attended the EU summit—the first time since 2009 that a U.S. president had joined talks with the EU’s 27…

After seven years of negotiations, the Chinese communist regime and the European Union reached the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement in December 2020. Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made promises to the EU such as market access and no more forced technology transfer, many have questioned and criticized this agreement.