The comments reflect growing European urgency over China's multibillion-dollar trade surpluses, an area where Washington long took the lead in lobbying Beijing for reforms. European leaders will press Beijing for action to lower barriers to foreign investment and to let its currency, the yuan, rise more quickly in value, Abou told reporters. The European Union is China's biggest foreign trading partner, ahead of the United States and Japan, but Europe has seen its deficit with China swell quickly in recent years. European companies say Chinese officials appear to be blocking them from expanding in finance and other industries in an attempt to nurture China's own companies, violating Beijing's free-trade pledges. Asked whether the EU would coordinate more closely with Washington and imitate the United States in filing more complaints against China in the World Trade Organization, Abou said Europe had no fixed group of allies and sometimes was opposed by the United States on trade issues. read more
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