Educational cooperation is the best way to foster ties between Turkey and China, according to the president of Okan University in Istanbul.
The 8th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit, to be held in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday and Tuesday, is the first of the biennial gatherings since the Lisbon Treaty came into force in December 2009.
Since China and Greece established the diplomatic relations on June 5, 1972 it has seen a favorable development of the relations between the two countries.
On the morning of March 17, 2005, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing.
On November 30, 1964, China and Italy signed an agreement on mutually setting up representative offices for civil commerce in Rome and sent to each other commercial representatives at the beginning of 1965.
China and Turkey two nations established diplomatic relations on August 4, 1971.
Since the inception of the ASEM process in 1996, Asia and Europe have kept their biennial appointment with remarkable regularity. It must be taken as a sign of the depth of commonality between them.
The China-EU Summit is the highest-level dialogue between the two sides. During the annual event, leaders from China and the EU discuss regional and international issues of common concerns.