(24 Jul 2025)
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Beijing, China – 24 July 2025
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1. Various of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa arriving for meeting
2. European Union and Chinese flags
3. Wide of meeting
4. Wide of Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking, UPSOUND (Mandarin) Xi Jinping: "The relationships between China and the EU stands at a critical historical juncture”
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, Chinese President:
“The fruitful results of exchanges and cooperation have not only benefited both sides, but also contributed to the world. An important lesson and experience drawn from this process is mutual respect, seeking common ground while setting aside differences, openness and cooperation, and mutual benefit and win-win outcomes. These principles should also guide the future development of China-EU relations.”
6. Wide of meeting
7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, Chinese President:
“The more severe and complex the international situation becomes, the more China and the EU need to strengthen communication, enhance mutual trust, and deepen cooperation, to contribute greater stability and certainty to the world through a stable and sound China-EU relationship."
8. Mid of von der Leyen and Costa during meeting
9. Wide of meeting
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Costa, European Council President:
“We need concrete progress on issues related to trade and economy and we both want our relationship to be balanced, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial.”
11. Mid of Xi
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Costa, European Council President:
“The world is going through a period of global uncertainty, marked by economic volatility, geopolitical tensions as well as challenges facing the entire humankind. The European Union, as you said, Mr. President, are major economies and actors in the world. We share responsibility to uphold the rules-based order and tackle global challenges.”
13. Close of Xi
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President:
“As our cooperation has deepened, so have the imbalances. We have reached an inflection point. Rebalancing our bilateral relations is essential, because to be sustainable relations need to be mutually beneficial. And to achieve this, it is vital for China and Europe to acknowledge our respective concerns and come forward with a real solution.”
15. Wide of von der Leyen speaking
16. Wide of meeting
STORYLINE:
European leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday to discuss trade, climate change and global conflicts, but observers say expectations were low for any solid agreements between both sides.
The talks, initially supposed to last two days but scaled back to one, come amid financial uncertainty around the world, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the threat of U.S. tariffs.
Neither the EU nor China is likely to budge on key issues dividing the two economic juggernauts.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa met with Xi in the morning and were set to hold talks with Premier Li Qiang later in the day to mark 50 years of relations between Brussels and Beijing.
Xi said the China-EU relationship has reached “a critical historical juncture” and the experience from the past decades is that both sides should seek common ground and set aside differences.
Von der Leyen said the cooperation and trade imbalances between China and the EU had reached “an inflection point.”
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