European Union The leaders plan to go to Beijing for a summit with the Chinese president Xi Jinping At the end of July, according to five people familiar with the arrangement.
The plan suggests that a second successive EU-China summit takes place in the Chinese capital, despite the fact that the location is supposed to turn.
However, with XI reluctant to make the trip to Brussels, it is understood that the president of the European Council Antonio Costa and the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen have agreed that they had to go to Beijing if they want time with the Chinese chief.
No date has been confirmed by the Chinese team, but the will of the EU leaders to make the trip indicates a serious effort to re -engage with Beijing at a time when the relationship of the block with The United States has actually collapsed.
US President Donald TrumpThe return to the White House saw him impose prices on the EU products, when he made a dramatic geopolitical flip-flop on Ukraineletting Europeans consider it on the invasing side Russia In The three -year war.
