Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells counterpart Peter Szijjarto in Beijing that Hungary is a ‘European country of unique influence’.

Dramatic search for evidence of financial help from Beijing stuns businesses and competition lawyers in Europe.

Chew Shou Zi, chief executive of the popular app, says the platform will continue to operate as it challenges the new legislation in court.

First probe launched under international procurement instrument will look into access for European device manufacturers.

Faced with the threat of fines, the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform has provided an assessment report on the app’s rewards-for-views scheme.

Authorities said to have entered premises of Dutch and Polish subsidiaries of a mainland firm involved in the manufacture of surveillance equipment.

Though trade ties have taken a hit in other areas, the EU’s agriculture commissioner says a stronger relationship between China and Europe can and should exist in food and farming products.

German authorities accuse assistant to Maximilian Krah, the AfD’s top candidate in European elections, on suspicion of working for Chinese intelligence service.

Developments hours apart come amid rising anxiety in some European capitals over the threat of Beijing’s surveillance practices.

Despite its attempts to woo back foreign investment, China has yet to see a hoped-for return of overseas capital as enterprises express hesitation to jump back into the fray.

At a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy, a US official said China is ‘contributing to Russia’s ability to prosecute’ the Ukraine war in ways that threaten all of Europe.

German industry debates how to proceed after finding cracks in a once robust and mutually beneficial relationship.

In public remarks in China, chancellor did not throw support behind Brussels’ de-risking agenda and focused primarily on German business interests.

The Ukraine president says China could play a role in securing an end to the war, as he seeks Beijing’s backing for a peace summit in Switzerland.

Brussels has instigated a slew of investigations in recent weeks as frustration mounts over Beijing’s economic policies.

Chinese leader tells the German chancellor that neither side poses a security threat to the other and they should continue to strengthen their economic ties.

Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

Scholz is looking to boost trade ties but the visit takes place at a time when Brussels has started a subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicle makers.

Fu’s tenure in Brussels coincided with growing tensions over Beijing’s relations with Russia and probes into alleged electric vehicle subsidies.

A recent report has found China has overtaken Germany in terms of certain exports, an elevation of status for the Asian juggernaut but a potential source of tension for already fraught bilateral relations.

State subsidies are in Brussels’ cross hairs as the world’s largest windpower producer exports low-cost turbines to quench global demand for clean power.

An anti-subsidies investigation into Chinese wind turbine manufacturers by the EU could saddle the bloc’s renewable project developers with high costs and slow down their decarbonisation efforts, analysts say. The impact on Chinese firms could be limited.

German businesses operating in China have said they face ‘unfair competition’, complicating the already tense relationship between the two countries in advance of a visit from Chancellor Olaf Scholz.