In a speech at Renmin University in Beijing, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson called on China to move to meet its outstanding WTO commitments or risk a backlash in Europe against its perceived trading power.

Arguing that Europe for its part had to have "the confidence to welcome China’s economic resurgence", Mandelson also insisted that if China did not provide better access for EU investment and trade, improved protection of intellectual property rights and the dismantling of export incentives and other forms of trade-distorting subsidy, it would provoke a negative protectionist response in Europe.

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