EU parliament blocks China investment deal over sanctions

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Beijing's state-run media accuses EU of acting under the US's direction to control China. FMTNews

BRUSSELS: The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday to refuse any consideration of the EU-China investment deal as long as Chinese sanctions against MEPs and scholars were in place.

“The European Parliament’s decision underlines what I have been saying for weeks: the investment agreement with China is on ice and will only be unfrozen when China withdraws sanctions against members of the European Parliament,” said German MEP Bernd Lange, head of the trade committee. “China is the EU’s largest trading partner and the US’ largest trading partner, and thus plays an important role in the global economy,” Altmaier said.China’s state-run, nationalist tabloid Global Times defended Beijing’s sanctions in an editorial late Thursday, saying there was “no way China will lift those sanctions under pressure from the European Parliament”.

The EU sanctioned four Chinese officials over suspected human rights violations in China’s far western region of Xinjiang.

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