INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A month out from a crunch summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the leaders of the European Union, senior EU officials have landed
on an unsavoury term to describe their trade ties with China: “the stinking fish”.
The analogy, used when briefing member state
diplomats on progress in trade talks with China, refers to the European Commission’s frustration that each of its top demands from Beijing
is around the removal of measures that were introduced to punish Europe or the US.
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