Chinese students nowadays shuttle between China, EU, US like Canadians going to Tim Hortons for coffee.
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She raised the issue after it was announced that Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors, the consortium responsible for delivering the principal contract for the crossing, had struck deals with "major international steel suppliers in China and the EU".
Argentina has managed to anger several of its trading partners including China, the EU, and even members in MERCOSUR, the South American free-trade bloc, such as Brazil and Uruguay. (Read Best Steaks Coming Your Way:Beleaguered Argentine Beef Industry Set To Rebound).
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Working closely with a formal interagency committee and private sector stakeholders, Mr. Weiss negotiated with U.S. trading partners -- including Brazil, China, the EU, India, Korea, and Mexico -- to address problematic regulations that impeded market access for U.S. producers of numerous industrial and agricultural goods.
Also, other key economies including the EU, China and Japan are showing no signs of genuine improvement.
The EU is China's biggest trade partner and Beijing needs Europeans to be able to buy its goods.
The EU wants China and the US - the world's biggest CO2 polluters - to agree on more ambitious targets to limit climate change.
And its members are subject to a host of governments with often contradictory energy policy objectives, including the U.S., Russia, the EU and China.
The prime minister of Greenland says he will not favour the EU over China or other investors when granting access to highly prized rare earth minerals.
The debate is driven by a fast-growing EU-China trade relationship.
In a statement released to the public, conference attendees urged the U.S., Russia, Japan, EU and China to raise the issue of the tunnel project at next week's G-8 Summit to be held in Heiligendamm, Germany.
Turkey, increasingly turning away from Europe, is on the road to becoming a more effective force in the Middle East than is the EU. China and India are competing to replace the Europeans as the most important non-U.S. economic actor in Africa.
Wen is now asking for the EU to give China recognition as a market economy.
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The team added that many countries, including EU members and China, had pledged slower carbon curbs than they had been achieving anyway.
China also claims that the EU's policy transgresses UN climate-change agreements which ordain that mitigation costs should be lower for developing countries than rich ones.
With potentially more lightly regulated non-EU markets like China and India crying out for American-style English-language TV, the UK's Anglo-American press barons see only problems in a more integrated Europe.
Yet, even setting aside the difficult issue of how much of a free ride China can expect, the EU's policy applies to individual companies, not countries, for which there is no such dispensation.
China is now complaining that the EU has been responsible for dumping material at below cost.
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The EU ban could give China more leverage with Iran's state oil company.
The plea came after European competitors asked the EU to investigate whether China was helping its firms to export cheaper panels unfairly.
China and California now join the EU in each having their separate cap and trade systems, while Australia is forging ahead with its carbon tax.
The U.S., Turkey, Serbia, China and Russia were the biggest non-EU source countries.
The House of Lords EU committee chairman Lord Teverson told peers that the EU "cannot afford to ignore China", adding that it must develop a "much better and strategic relationship with China".
In fact, U.S. policies have been the subject of more World Trade Organization disputes (119) than have any other countries policies. (The EU is second with 73 and China is third with 30).
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Mr. Clancy said an investigation won't be launched right away, in order to allow time for the EU authorities to start negotiations with China on the issue that could potentially make a probe unnecessary.
This is part of a "strategic partnership" that the EU proclaimed at its summit meeting with China last December.
According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, there were 39, 090 Indian students on UK courses in 2010-11, 13% of the total non-EU student population and second only to China.
The EU debt situation shared the spotlight with China Monday as Chinese monetary authorities loosened monetary policy over the weekend by reducing reserve requirement ratios on domestic bank reserves.
It is a priority because the EU has a huge bill for oil and gas imports from outside Europe - bigger even than the EU's manufacturing trade gap with China, he says.
"This is further evidence of re-balancing across the economy, with the latest UK trade figures showing record levels of exports going to countries outside the EU, such as the US and China, " he said.
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