China's Premier Li speaking as part of the meeting with the EU, President Donald Tusk attending

Comments from Li:

  • We need to improve WTO while upholding free trade, rules based order
  • Wants to improve authority of WTO
  • China wants to seek more balanced trade with EU
  • Need to advance investment treaty negotiations with EU, share objective of concluding agreement at an early date
  • China will significantly raise its market access, reduce tariff rates
  • If any foreign company feels their intellectual property rights are seriously violated, we will deal with their case immediately

Over the weekend US President Trump said the EU was a foe of the US (he was referring to trade):

"I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade."

As I said at that post … Trump's trade war threats and why he won't back down