<p>The European Union has no intention to decouple from China but needs to protect itself in situations when its openness is abused, the bloc's Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Saturday.</p>.China bars 3 Indian athletes from Arunachal Pradesh | India-China tensions flare up | Asian Games 2023.<p>The bloc posted record bilateral trade with China last year, but it is "very unbalanced", he said in a speech at the annual Bund Summit conference in Shanghai, citing a trade deficit of almost 400 billion euros. </p>
<p>The European Union has no intention to decouple from China but needs to protect itself in situations when its openness is abused, the bloc's Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Saturday.</p>.China bars 3 Indian athletes from Arunachal Pradesh | India-China tensions flare up | Asian Games 2023.<p>The bloc posted record bilateral trade with China last year, but it is "very unbalanced", he said in a speech at the annual Bund Summit conference in Shanghai, citing a trade deficit of almost 400 billion euros. </p>