The European Union's trade chief Maros Sefcovic is hosting Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Brussels for day-long discussions that EU officials have billed as a decisive moment for the bloc's commercial relationship with Beijing.
The EU's goods trade deficit with China hit around 360 billion euros (approximately 412 billion dollars) last year, and European leaders recently instructed the European Commission to draw up proposals to better protect the bloc's economic interests.
But member states are divided on how aggressively to confront Beijing.
William Denselow has more from Brussels.
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