EU-China relations: MEPs will host China’s EU Ambassador Ming Zhang on Monday
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18. September 2020 In Aktuell, EN

EU-China relations: MEPs will host China’s EU Ambassador Ming Zhang on Monday

Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs will hold a debate with China’s EU Ambassador Ming Zhang on Monday, at 17.00 CET.

The ongoing negotiations to conclude a long-standing investment deal between the EU and China, disinformation, the situation in Hong Kong, human rights, climate change and how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic are expected to be some of the issues raised by MEPs in the upcoming discussions with China’s EU Ambassador Ming Zhang, who will be present at the committee meeting. The debate will kick off on Monday, 21 September, at 17.00 CET.

You can follow it live here.

A follow-up of the EU-China leaders‘ meeting

The debate comes after the virtual meeting that European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week, on 14 September, which aimed to follow-up on the 22nd EU-China summit that took place on 22 June this year.

At that meeting, the leaders welcomed the progress on the ongoing negotiations for the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement (CAI), especially on the rules regulating the behaviour of state-owned-enterprises, on forced technology transfer and on transparency of subsidies. At the same time, the EU emphasised that more work was urgently needed on the issues of rebalancing market access and on sustainable development.

Read more on the conclusions from the EU-China leaders‘ meeting here.

Gunnar Wiegand, Managing Director for Asia and Pacific at the European External Action Service, will also join MEPs and the Chinese Ambassador for the debate, to present the latest take on developments from the EU’ side. The debate is organised by the Foreign Affairs Committee in association with the delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China.

The full meeting agenda with all the details can be found here.