Top European Union officials Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa are due to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing as the EU and China mark 50 years of diplomatic relations amid simmering tensions.
Von der Leyen and Costa, who respectively head up the European Commission and the European Council, will arrive in Beijing on Thursday for the 25th EU-China summit. But in the lead-up to the one-day summit, it was unclear whether von der Leyen and Costa would actually meet with Xi due to the ongoing political tensions between Brussels and Beijing.
