China Says EU Investment Deal Now in - 股票

China Says EU Investment Deal Now in Final Stage, Hails Progress
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China said talks with the European Union on a bilateral investment deal are
in the final stages, citing progress between negotiators as they push for an
agreement before a year-end deadline.

“Now the negotiations are in the final stage,” Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a briefing in Beijing on Friday. “I believe as
long as the both sides can take care of each other’s concerns and walk
towards each other, we will be able to achieve goals set by our leaders.”

Earlier the South China Morning Post reported that the two sides have reached
an ‘in principle’ agreement after receiving the backing of German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. Germany has
said the agreement would be discussed among the 27 representatives of the EU
bloc Friday, the report added.

The deal -- known as the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment -- has the
potential to reshape economic ties between China and the EU even as political
divisions remain. Bilateral trade exceeded $650 billion last year, and the
new agreement aims to build on that.

On Thursday, Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng told a regular
briefing that the two sides had conducted consultations focusing on the
remaining issues and had made “important progress.” “Both teams will
continue to work hard to achieve the negotiation goals set by the leaders of
both sides,” he said.

The agreement would be the second significant bilateral economic deal between
the EU and China this year after they came to terms on Geographical
Indications in July 2020, according to Joerg Wuttke, president of the
European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

“The CAI should increase European companies’ access to the world’s fastest
growing market, and provide a framework that allows them to compete on a
level playing field while safeguarding the same for Chinese companies in
their largest market -- the EU,” Wuttke said earlier this week.

While the deal represents a diplomatic win for both parties, it will be
especially welcomed by Beijing as it offers a chance of rekindling ties with
the EU that have grown increasingly cool in recent years.

Brussels has become more vocal in its criticism of China on an array of
issues from alleged human rights violations in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang
region to its increasing militarization of the South China Sea. The EU has
also raised concerns about a new national security law in Hong Kong that’s
curtailed freedoms in the former British territory.

Reaching an agreement wasn’t easy. Talks that began in 2013 have been drawn
out over provisions to open up China’s market and eliminate what the EU saw
as discriminatory practices.

The EU had also been seeking commitments from China on sustainable
development topics including labor issues -- an area that had become a major
obstacle to concluding the deal.
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簡單來說中歐投資協議，德法兩國己經原則上同意了
雙方都希望能在今年結束前有進展
德國今天會提出來和其他27國代表討論協議

這幾天德國股市漲幅蠻明顯的，不知是不是漲這個
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