Beijing says EU imposed unfair trade barriers on Chinese firms
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FILE - Visitors look at cars at the BYD booth during the China Auto Show in Beijing, China, Apr. 26, 2024. The EU threatened, June 12, 2024, to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing's subsidies for the exports.
China said Thursday that an investigation had found the European Union imposed unfair "trade and investment barriers" on Beijing, marking the latest salvo in long-running commercial tensions between the two economic powers.
FILE - This photo taken and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 31, 2024, shows the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile during a test-fire conducted by the Missile Administration at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
FILE - Rapid Support Forces leader Mohammad Hamdan Daglo Mousa salutes during a rally in Galawee, Sudan, June 15, 2019. Daglo, of Darfur, is widely known as Hemedti and on Jan. 7, 2024, was placed under U.S. sanctions.
FILE - A customer walks past a glass case displaying Maotai liquors at a supermarket in Shenyang, Liaoning province, Aug. 8, 2012. FILE - People take photos outside the stand for Kweichow Moutai, a Chinese liquor brand, at the China Food and Drinks fair in Chengdu, in China's southwest Sichuan province, April 4, 2021. FILE - A Luckin Coffee employee prepares baijiu liquor-flavored latte, the latest product in collaboration with Chinese liquor brand Kweichow Moutai, at a Luckin Coffee shop in Beijing on Sept. 4, 2023.
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FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby prior to a meeting at the Elysee palace in Paris on Feb. 6, 2023. Deby said that remarks made by Macron on Jan. 6, 2025, dishonored and disrespected Africa.
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In this photo released by Governor of the Saratov region Roman Busargin telegram channel on Jan. 8, 2025, Busargin, right, speaks to firefighters and rescuers after a Ukrainian drones attack in Russia. (Governor of the Saratov region Roman Busargin telegram channel via AP)
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