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Sino-EU ties should not be hurt by disputes
By Qin Jize and Zhao Huanxin (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-16 07:10
Europe and China must always keep the big picture in mind and not let one or
two issues overshadow their relationship, the visiting European Commission chief
said on Friday in Beijing.
Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with visiting
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Beijing, July 15,
2005. [Xinhua] | "The development of a strategic, mutually beneficial and enduring
relationship with China is one of the European Union's top foreign policy
priorities for this century," Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech at the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Barroso, on his first visit to China as European Commission president, did
not specify which issues were overshadowing the relationship while addressing
the Chinese Government's top think-tank.
But in Q-and-A sessions later in the day, Barroso took up issues including
China's market economy status, EU's ban on arms sales to China and trade
disputes.
The EU and the United States have yet to recognize China's full market
economy status, though a host of other countries have done so.
Barroso said both China and the EU need to do more before the EU grants the
status to China, adding the decision is unlikely to be made in the immediate
future.
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