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- Wopke Hoekstra, EU Climate Action Commissioner, urged Europe to reduce reliance on China for clean-energy technologies.
- Chinese firms supply over 80% of Europe’s residential battery storage and about 88% of lithium-ion battery imports.
- EU trade officials are drafting a diversification instrument to force critical-sector firms to add non-Chinese suppliers.
- EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefcovic will travel to Beijing in October for technical talks with China.
