The stern message was delivered during a video summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. FMTNews China EU Trade
Michel and von der Leyen participate in a media conference in Brussels yesterday.
“We expressed our grave concerns about the proposed national security law for Hong Kong,” Michel told reporters after the talks. A report of the summit by China’s state news agency Xinhua made no mention of Hong Kong but said Xi had stressed his country wanted “peace without hegemony”. Von der Leyen said she had warned the Chinese leaders that Hong Kong owes its economic success to its relative autonomy from Beijing.
China and the EU both profess to want to strengthen ties, but the relationship is tangled in a thicket of disagreements on topics ranging from trade and investment rules to human rights and national security.
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