Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point.
bilateral trade between the two sides last year reached 786 billion US dollars with investment up to 260 billion US dollars at the same time the China Europe railway express has become a golden passage linking Asia and Europe running more than a hundred thousand cargo trips so far yet Despite these achievements,
frictions remain as the EU has moved to curb Chinese medical device makers' access to public procurement contracts and has slapped high tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
This comes after the EU designated China as a partner for cooperation,
an economic competitor and a systemic rival.
How tenable is this approach?
Can you be both a partner and a systemic rival?
What are the expectations for China-EU trade relations going forward?
And how are U.S. protectionist policies impacting China-EU relations?
Welcome to The Point with me,
Lu Xin, coming to you from Beijing.
I'm pleased to be joined from Berlin by Andreas Hube,
member of the Federal Management Team at the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade,
or BWA.
He's also co-founder of China Bridge.
From Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Arnaud Bertrand,
a French commentator on economics and geopolitics and CEO of Chinese medicine company Me and Qi.
From Beijing by Zhou Mi,
deputy director of the Institute of American and Oceanic Study at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.