(ANSA) - BEIJING, 09 MAY - China and the EU are global strategic partners and are an opportunity for each other with common interests that "far exceed the differences".
Beijing, President Xi Jinping affirmed in a virtual meeting with German chancellor Olaf Scholz, "supports the EU's strategic autonomy. China-EU relations are not targeted against anyone, they do not depend on or are controlled by third parties. This is a strategic consensus to which both sides should adhere for a long time. "
Xi, in the report of the People's Daily, added that the parties "should adhere to a long-term dialectic perspective".
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