Nicolas Chapuis, the EU’s ambassador in Beijing, on why the bloc is making progress in its relations with China, and why you won’t hear him using words like ‘decoupling’ or ‘containment’ any time soon “We have gained relevance… we are talking to the boss now,” Nicolas Chapuis tells CBBC in an interview in early March. By the “boss”, Chapuis clearly means Xi Jinping himself. The Chinese leader has in recent …
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It could hardly have been a busier end to 2020 for Europe’s trade negotiators. A post-Brexit agreement with the UK signed just before Christmas ended up being merely an hors d’oeuvre to what the European Commission has described as its ‘most ambitious’ deal ever with a third party – a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) with China. At the beginning of 2020, an agreement between the European Union and China …