The European Union is debating whether to drop a sensitive trade investigation against China over alleged coercive activity targeting Lithuania, a prospect that’s frustrated officials in Washington, where the incoming Trump team sees it as capitulation to Beijing.

Beijing has consistently denied its industrial policies are unfair and has threatened to take action against the EU to protect Chinese companies' legal rights and interests. The commerce ministry said Thursday that the implementation of the EU's Foreign ...

Brussels is considering which punitive measures to take after investigation concludes Beijing is restricting public procurement market.

Attacks on underwater cables in strategic areas connecting telecommunication lines and power sources in Asia and Europe are suspected to be coordinated attacks by China and Russia.

China and the European Union have a robust "symbiotic" economic relationship and Beijing hopes the bloc can become "a trustworthy partner for cooperation", President Xi Jinping told European Council President Antonio Costa on Tuesday.

The proposed meeting signals to Washington, days before Trump’s inauguration, that Brussels wants to keep its options open toward Beijing.

China said on Thursday that a six-month investigation had found the European Union had imposed unfair restrictions on Chinese firms.

Another issue affecting EU-China relations is China's increasingly close political and economic ties with Russia.

TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb, which alleged the firms were unlawfully sending European Union user data to China.

Beijing has consistently denied its industrial policies are unfair and has threatened to take action against the EU to protect Chinese companies' legal rights and interests. The commerce ministry ...

China said Thursday that its probe had found the EU imposed unfair "trade and investment barriers" on Beijing, marking the latest salvo in long-running commercial tensions between the two countries. Officials announced the investigation in July after ...