Overview

• Kaja Kallas urged China on July 2 in Brussels to lift distortive rare earth export restrictions to protect European companies and global supply chains.
• She warned that Chinese firms’ components for Russia’s military industrial complex pose a serious threat to European security and called for an immediate halt to material support.
• Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi countered that Europe and China must unite against unilateralism and bullying to preserve the international order.
• Both diplomats reaffirmed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as the cornerstone of global nuclear security.
• The Brussels discussions set the agenda for the July 24-25 EU-China leaders’ summit in Beijing and Hefei.