President of the European Council Charles Michel: his talks with Xi Jinping were described as 'an open and sincere dialogue'. Photograph: Getty Images European Council president Charles Michel stressed the human right to peaceful assembly and highlighted the availability of coronavirus vaccines in a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping held amid a crackdown on protests against Beijing’s strict zero-Covid policy. “We made it very clear that European companies are available to provide vaccines, if those vaccines will be agreed by the official authorities in China,” Mr Michel told a press conference after the three-hour meeting in Beijing on Thursday....