NANJING, China -- Chinese and European Union leaders appeared to make little headway on currency, climate and market access in a round of high-level talks that ended Monday in this eastern Chinese city.

The two-day China-EU summit was billed as a chance for the two major trading partners to tailor exit policies from a year of global recession, as well as an opportunity to refine positions ahead of the Copenhagen conference on climate change. Instead, the two sides traded barbs over those issues plus others such as development...