Observers say Ukraine will be high on the agenda when Chinese President Xi Jinping travels to France, Serbia and Hungary next month, while the West will be watching Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s visit to China for signs Beijing is supporting Moscow’s war efforts.

Patricia Flor says the summons is ‘quite telling’ and Germany does not tolerate spying from any country.

Purpose is to enlist China’s help in ending the companies’ activities that allegedly violate sanctions on supplying products with military applications to Moscow.

Resolution calls for freeing of Joseph John, as well as activist Andy Li and newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai, and condemns Hong Kong’s passage of domestic national security law.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells counterpart Peter Szijjarto in Beijing that Hungary is a ‘European country of unique influence’.

Dramatic search for evidence of financial help from Beijing stuns businesses and competition lawyers in Europe.

Chew Shou Zi, chief executive of the popular app, says the platform will continue to operate as it challenges the new legislation in court.

First probe launched under international procurement instrument will look into access for European device manufacturers.

Faced with the threat of fines, the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform has provided an assessment report on the app’s rewards-for-views scheme.

Authorities said to have entered premises of Dutch and Polish subsidiaries of a mainland firm involved in the manufacture of surveillance equipment.

Though trade ties have taken a hit in other areas, the EU’s agriculture commissioner says a stronger relationship between China and Europe can and should exist in food and farming products.

German authorities accuse assistant to Maximilian Krah, the AfD’s top candidate in European elections, on suspicion of working for Chinese intelligence service.

Developments hours apart come amid rising anxiety in some European capitals over the threat of Beijing’s surveillance practices.

Despite its attempts to woo back foreign investment, China has yet to see a hoped-for return of overseas capital as enterprises express hesitation to jump back into the fray.

At a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy, a US official said China is ‘contributing to Russia’s ability to prosecute’ the Ukraine war in ways that threaten all of Europe.

German industry debates how to proceed after finding cracks in a once robust and mutually beneficial relationship.

In public remarks in China, chancellor did not throw support behind Brussels’ de-risking agenda and focused primarily on German business interests.

The Ukraine president says China could play a role in securing an end to the war, as he seeks Beijing’s backing for a peace summit in Switzerland.

Brussels has instigated a slew of investigations in recent weeks as frustration mounts over Beijing’s economic policies.

Chinese leader tells the German chancellor that neither side poses a security threat to the other and they should continue to strengthen their economic ties.

Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

Scholz is looking to boost trade ties but the visit takes place at a time when Brussels has started a subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicle makers.

Fu’s tenure in Brussels coincided with growing tensions over Beijing’s relations with Russia and probes into alleged electric vehicle subsidies.

A recent report has found China has overtaken Germany in terms of certain exports, an elevation of status for the Asian juggernaut but a potential source of tension for already fraught bilateral relations.