The Irish Times view on Xi Jinping’s European visit: tensions remain over trade and Ukraine

Xi Jinping, China's president, left, and Emmanuel Macron, France's president, at Tarbes-Lourdes Pyrenees airport, in Tarbes, France, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The EU and China have found themselves at odds on multiple fronts, including Russia's war in Ukraine and international commerce. Photographer: Matthieu Rondel/Bloomberg, his first in five years, highlighted the deterioration in China’s relationship with the continent since 2019 amid tensions over trade and the war in Ukraine.

The visit began in Paris where Commission President Ursula von der Leyen joined French President Emmanuel Macron in outlining to Xi the EU’s concerns about Chinese manufacturing overcapacity. They told him that Europe would not allow a flood of cheap imports from China of products such as electric vehicles to damage its own industrial base.

‘We got a ring, it looked like a washer’: Irish victims lose thousands in global online shopping scam centred in ChinaOne option for China is to follow the playbook of Japanese car manufacturers decades ago by opening factories in Europe. BYD, China’s biggest EV manufacturer, already produces cars in Hungary and France is among the countries saying they would welcome Chinese producers.

Xi paused the imposition of sanctions on French cognac but Beijing is likely to target European food and drink products in any trade war. Such an escalation should be avoided and since China has shown itself capable in the past of curbing manufacturing output when necessary, it should be encouraged to do so again.

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