European Union Leaders Could Go to China By 2023: Envoy

Preparations for the go to by the EU’s prime two officers are beneath approach, mentioned Fu Kong (File)

Beijing:

Chinese language ambassador to the European Union Fu Cong mentioned European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel could go to China within the first half of 2023, China’s state-backed World Instances reported.

Preparations for the go to by the EU’s prime two officers are beneath approach and “very frequent high-level mutual visits” between the EU and China are anticipated to start quickly, Fu mentioned in an interview printed on Friday.

The 2 sides have taken divergent positions on the year-long battle in Ukraine, with EU diplomats criticising China’s refusal to explain the battle as an invasion or to name for a Russian withdrawal from Ukrainian territory.

Fu mentioned within the interview that EU anger with China over Ukraine was “very irrational” and that China didn’t need the problem to have an effect on the event of ties with the bloc.

After the Chinese language international ministry printed on Friday a place paper expounding its stance on the battle, the EU’s prime diplomat in China Jorge Toledo advised reporters in Beijing that elements of the paper have been regarding.

“There is no such thing as a point out of an aggressor there which is unusual as a result of it is clear that there’s an aggressor and there’s an agressee. It is unlawful and unprovoked. In order that’s a bit regarding,” Toledo mentioned.

Fu mentioned in December that the battle had put China in a really troublesome place in its relations with the EU, after Michel urged Chinese language President Xi Jinping to make use of the nation’s affect with Russia over its battle in Ukraine throughout a go to to Beijing in early December.

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