2020 started off as a breakthrough year for EU-China relations. Two official Summits planned – the first with EU leaders in Beijing and the second with European heads of state and government in Leipzig. Expected entry into force of a landmark agreement on geographical indications. Plans to conclude negotiations on the long-awaited Comprehensive Agreement on Investment. But the COVID-19 crisis has created new priorities for both, raising questions as to how the relationship will evolve in the months and years to come. This Strategic Conversation with Zhang Ming, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the European Union, will look at the future of EU-China relations in the ‘age of coronavirus’.

This new Strategic Conversations series invites key policymakers to share their views on a range of important and strategically relevant issues through interviews with senior thinkers on the Friends of Europe team.

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