Dhaka, Aug. 1 -- In 2025, the European Union and China celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations. The EU-China Summit was held in Beijing on Thursday amid economic and geopolitical pressures, strained relations and growing and ongoing trade tensions. In October 2024, the EU imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, including antisubsidy duties of up to 35.3 percent on top of a 10 percent base tariff. Since then, the trade tensions between the EU and China have increased.

But despite the tensions, the July summit went ahead well. Liu Jianchao, minister of the international department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivering a speech in Cyprus in June, stated that "China is w...