What’s Next for EU-China Relations?

President Xi’s visit to Brussels prompts the question: are China and the EU willing to rekindle their relationship, to fuse it with other energy than buoyant mercantilism and tangential political squabbles, the two defining characters of Sino-European relations in the past twenty years? The answer is not obvious. While diplomats on both sides miss no opportunity to talk up the importance of Sino-European relations and President Xi’s visit, neither side has a clear idea what they actually want to do with each other.