The European Commission filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday against what it said was China's "unfair and illegal" practice of setting worldwide royalty rates for EU standard essential patents without the patent owner's consent.

China and the European Union have a robust "symbiotic" economic relationship and Beijing hopes the bloc can become "a trustworthy partner for cooperation", President Xi Jinping told European Council President Antonio Costa on Tuesday.

In the week before President Donald Trump’s inauguration into the White House for his second term as president of the United States, China seemed to cozy up to U.S. allies.

The EU should encourage Chinese carmakers to open more plants in the bloc as part of a deal to drop high tariffs on imported Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), Ola Källenius, chairman of the board of management of Mercedes-Benz Group has said,

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) expressed regret on Monday over the European Union's decision to bring China's judicial handling of standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute resolution mechanism and reaffirmed its commitment to firmly safeguarding its legitimate rights and interests in this matter.

If no solution is found through discussions with China, the EU could impose its own restrictions on Chinese access to EU government contracts, it said. The European Commission, th

The EU should encourage Chinese carmakers to open more plants in the bloc as part of a deal to drop punitive tariffs on imported Chinese electric vehicles, the boss of Mercedes-Benz has said.

The European Union is debating whether to drop a sensitive trade investigation against China over alleged coercive activity targeting Lithuania, a prospect that’s frustrated officials in Washington, where the incoming Trump team sees it as capitulation to Beijing.

Attacks on underwater cables in strategic areas connecting telecommunication lines and power sources in Asia and Europe are suspected to be coordinated attacks by China and Russia.

China hopes the European Union can become "a trustworthy partner for cooperation", Chinese President Xi Jinping told European Council President Antonio Costa in a phone call on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The EU accused China on Tuesday of discriminating against European medical device producers in public contracts and warned of "decisive action" unless the issue can be resolved through dialogue with Beijing.

Some EU car­makers are now partly or wholly owned by China’s BAIC, not SAIC as wrongly stated in an art­icle on Janu­ary 17