{"id":38076,"date":"2025-11-13T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38076\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:48:10","slug":"china-and-europe-need-clear-communication-on-thorny-issues-to-fix-ties-observer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38076\/","title":{"rendered":"China and Europe need clear communication on thorny issues to fix ties, observer says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels and Beijing<\/a> are both to blame for their strained ties and clear communication is needed to handle sensitive issues like Taiwan<\/a> and rare earths<\/a>, according to a veteran business leader and China watcher.Joerg Wuttke, former president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, said the 27-member bloc<\/a> should also redouble efforts to become more resilient.<\/p>\n

Wuttke \u2013 now a partner at consulting firm DGA Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington \u2013 also called for a new Manhattan Project to break China\u2019s dominance in the rare earths supply chain, during an interview in Beijing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Since Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s return to the White House, the EU has been increasingly marginalised, challenged by strained transatlantic relations, a more assertive Beijing, and caught between the US-China rivalry<\/a>.\"JoergJoerg Wuttke, a partner at DGA Albright Stonebridge Group and former president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China. Photo: Simon Song<\/p>\n

Internally, it has faced criticism that it lacks a coherent strategy on China despite repeatedly pledging to de-risk from the world\u2019s second-biggest economy.<\/p>\n

Relations with Beijing have continued on a downward spiral. Apart from long-standing rifts around manufacturing overcapacity and the protracted war in Ukraine, tensions have been rising in recent months over critical mineral supplies, investment and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brussels and Beijing are both to blame for their strained ties and clear communication is needed to handle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7440,22239,827,153,21833,22234,22240,22236,75,84,83,1924,9,24,22238,63,22235,17649,22237,618,6648],"class_list":{"0":"post-38076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-european-commission","14":"tag-european-parliament","15":"tag-hsiao-bi-khim","16":"tag-manhattan","17":"tag-manhattan-headlines","18":"tag-manhattan-news","19":"tag-manhattan-project","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-nexperia","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-rare-earths","25":"tag-taiwan","26":"tag-taiwan-strait","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}