The European Union is set to buy time in its case against China at the World Trade Organization over allegations of economic coercion targeting Lithuania, according to people familiar with the matter.

The European Union has until Friday to tell the World Trade Organization whether it intends to resume its legal action against Beijing over the alleged coercion of EU member state Lithuania in 2021 after a blazing row over Taiwan.

With both the United States and the European Union changing their leadership in 2024 the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program and The Friedrich Naumann Foundation are pleased to present findings from a new joint report analyzing the priorities of the new European Commission and highlighting key issues that will shape the future of US-EU cooperation.

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.

The European Union launched a new challenge at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday against China's rules on royalty rates for high-tech patents, amid escalating trade tensions between Beijing and Brussels.

Trump, who will be inaugurated next week, has threatened the EU with tariffs and his team has criticized the bloc for being weak on China. The manner in which the EU handles the dispute will present an early test of how the world approaches trade under the new administration in Washington and the resilience of the transatlantic relationship.

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.

Beijing’s policy of favoring domestic medical technology is a matter of record, but the European Commission apparently heard enough from EU med tech firms to take action. The Commission posted notice that it may take steps to retaliate by restricting bids from China for EU government contracts in retaliation,

BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Thursday it would apply provisional duties on imports of industrial plastics from the United States, European Union, Japan and Taiwan after a months-long anti-dumping investigation.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen declared Tuesday that Europe was ready to negotiate with the United States and seek to improve ties with China as Beijing warned against damaging trade wars in the face of Donald Trump's protectionism.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday the bloc should "engage constructively" with China, despite rising trade tensions between Beijing and Brussels.