EU plans summit with China on April 1 to address tensions

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will hold a summit with China on April 1 in an attempt to diffuse growing tensions between the two, European Commission Vice-President and EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday. “We know we are in a complicated phase of relations with China,” Dombrovskis told the trade committee of the European Parliament. Dombrovskis referred to an investment agreement struck with China that has stalled after Beijing imposed sanctions on some members of the parliament and a dispute between China and Lithuania after the latter allowed Taiwan to open a de facto …

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