China and the European Union seek to save a global pact against climate change from which U.S. President Donald Trump said he will withdraw.
In a statement backed by all 28 EU states, the European Union and China will commit to full implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement.
The warmer EU-China relationship, partly spurred by Trump, has developed despite a long-running EU spat with Beijing on what Europe sees as China’s dumping of low-cost goods on European markets.
Still, the EU remains cautious about the direction of its second-largest trading partner, concerned by its militarisation of islands in the South China Sea and what it sees as increased authoritarianism under Xi.
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Source: Reuters News, 1 June 2017