EU trade chief seeks to dial down China tensions

BEIJING: The European Union’s top commerce official was due in China on Thursday for talks aimed at bringing both sides back from the brink of a mutually damaging trade war. The EU last year ran a trade deficit of around a billion euros ($1.1 billion) a day with China, caused by what many in the bloc see as Beijing’s unfair trade practices. But Europe can ill afford to anger China in case it throt