Landmark EU-China summit advances 2020 strategic agenda

BEIJING hosted on Tuesday and Wednesday a China-EU summit led by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. Key developments included the finalisation and signing of an EU-China Roadmap on Energy Cooperation for 2016-2020.

The important meeting, held in the framework of the jointly agreed 2020 strategic agenda for cooperation, focused on bilateral political and economic relations, in addition to global and regional issues, with climate change at the fore of this. Among the key items on the table were the UK's vote to exit the EU, Chinese investment in the EU's new infrastructur…