EU leaders and China’s President Xi …
But Dombrovskis, who is also responsible for trade, said that “we have to be realistic” because the investment deal “won’t solve all our issues with China, there are many”.
For that reason, he said he is looking forward to addressing some of these outstanding issues on several levels – bilaterally with Beijing, through the World Trade Organisation, but also with the new Biden administration in the US.
The Latvian Commissioner explained that many of these concerns derived from “the social-economic model of China”, so “we need to work together with the US to address those challenges and to ensure that the WTO reform is taking place”.