[국제]EU and China agree on investment agreement after 7 years

[국제]EU and China agree on investment agreement after 7 years

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The European Union, the EU and China have reached an agreement on investment in almost seven years.

Accordingly, it is expected that both companies will have more free access to the other countries’ markets.

Reporter Kim Jin-ho.

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Major EU leaders, including EU Commissioner Von der Raien, German Chancellor Merkel, French President Macron, and Standing Chairman of the EU Summit Charles Michel, held a videoconference with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

This is a meeting to conclude an investment agreement between the two sides.

EU Commissioner Fon der Raien tweeted, “We have in principle finished negotiations to sign an investment agreement with China,” and “for a more balanced trade and better business opportunities.”

“The investment agreement with the EU will provide a broader market and a better business environment for investors on both sides,” said Xi Jinping. “This agreement demonstrates China’s determination and confidence in openness.”

[리 용지에 / 중국 상무부 조약법률사 부국장 : 중국이 처음으로 서비스업과 비서비스업 등 모든 부문에서 네거티브 리스트 형태로 개방 약속을 했습니다. 그리고 EU는 이 협정에 따라 중국에 대해 상대적으로 높은 수준의 시장 접근을 약속했습니다.]

As the EU already maintains a high degree of openness to foreign investment, the agreement is focused on the EU to further benefit from investment in China.

At face value, it may be a business that China loses, but as the EU took the hand that China extended before the inauguration of Biden’s next administration, China could soften the foreshadowing of the US, which had an alliance.

This investment agreement appears to have chosen China, which puts’China Money’ at the fore, as one of the measures to overcome the severe economic recession caused by the re-proliferation of Corona 19.

However, not a few point out that there is a high possibility that it will be an oblivion in the sense that negotiations were concluded based on interests rather than deep bonds between China and the EU, such as the’Corona 19 China responsibility theory’.

This is YTN Kim Jin-ho.

[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]

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