EU trade chief meets Chinese officials amid tariff threat

The European Union's (EU) trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic held talks with senior economic officials in Beijing on Thursday as a top Chinese leader called for global cooperation against protectionism. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA The European Union's (EU) trade commissioner MaroÅ¡ Å efčovič held talks with senior economic officials in Beijing on Thursday as a top Chinese leader called for global co-operation against protectionism. Ding Xuexiang, the sixth-ranking figure in the Communist Party hierarchy, told the Boao Forum for Asia that China would open wider to the world regardless of external events. "We should jointly safeguard the free trade system, uphold open regionalism…