Only by using all its political resources and will can the EU overcome the mighty challenges it faces today.
Washington and Brussels have embarked on the wrong journey by excluding Beijing from their talks and are therefore riding a bumpy road that may lead to a dead end.
The mission of the G20 summit is to inject new life into the global economy, something which China and Germany can review to improve their own competitiveness.
China recently said it would turn about 1,000 towns into dynamic environmental, cultural and economic hubs by 2020, which would create innumerable new jobs and give rise to new communities.
Beijing recently announced that by 2020 about 1000 selected towns will be turned into environmentally, culturally and economically dynamic hubs, which would create new jobs and offer livable habitats.
The leaders of G20 countries and chiefs of international institutions are almost certainly comparing notes ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, to be held next month.
In the decade up to 2014, the European Union could claim to be safer than the rest of the world, mainly because the number of terrorist attack victims decreased in the EU even as it increased globally.
It seems Xi's goal of developing a green and beautiful nation is on way to be achieved before schedule.
China needs to innovatively respond to this trend to spread its language and culture, in order to meet the rising demands in Europe and other continents.
With the aftershocks of the EU referendum result still reverberating, the UK has this month been confronted with the findings of the Iraq war inquiry, which criticized the Blair government for joining the US in launching military action against the Middle Eastern country.
When foreign ministers from European Union members gathered on July 18 for their monthly meeting in Brussels, they did so against a quickly altered backdrop of change and violence.
When the European Union foreign ministers hold their regular monthly meeting in Brussels on Monday, they will have many pressing issues to discuss.