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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas shake hands before a meeting at the headquarters of the European External Action Service in Brussels on July 2.
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Jonathan Eyal and Lim Min Zhang
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LONDON/BEIJING – When diplomats claim to have had a “full and frank exchange of views” with representatives of another country, what they might actually mean is that they engaged in a furious row.
This euphemism applies to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s latest tour of Europe, which concluded on July 5. Mr Wang was confronted with the entire array of Europe’s complaints about China, and the Chinese Foreign Minister gave back as good as he got.
