A new process to talk about the trade imbalance between China and the European Union carries no guarantee of success. But it’s the best news for EU-China relations in years.Beijing and Brussels talk tradeWhen EU trade commissioner Maroš Šef?ovi? and China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao, issued a statement after their meeting in Brussels on Monday, it was the first such joint EU-China communique since 2019. The fact that it took the threat of a mutually destructive trade war to make it happen is a sign of how badly the relationship has deteriorated since then.Šef?ovi? and Wang launched a formal consultation…