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The EU's current economic troubles were in the spotlight during a meeting with Chinese Premiere Wen Jiabao and European Union leaders. China has said it will not bail out the EU.

China and Europe pledged to strengthen bilateral ties at a summit in Beijing on Tuesday.

It brought together Premier Wen Jiabao and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.

Wen told the two European leaders that China and Europe should enhance co-operation in the face of difficulties.

[Wen Jiabao, CCP Premiere]:
"China and Europe are all-round strategic partners. In the face of difficulties and challenges we should have mutual understanding, and collaborate toward common goals. This would harmonize the basic interests of both sides."

Van Rompuy said China and Europe needed to work together to boost both economies.

[Herman Van Rompuy, European Council President]:
"We became so interdependent that change in the growth rate in one of the two strategic partners has a direct and palpable impact on the other one. Our economic destinies are interlinked."

Debt-ridden Europe has been looking to China to dip into its huge foreign exchange reserves to help the eurozone tackle a debt build-up that threatens its economic stability.

While Chinese leaders have repeatedly expressed confidence in European nations, they have also refrained from making firm financial commitments, urging Europe first to take further steps on its own.

On Monday, the Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily said in a front-page commentary that China had no intention of "buying up" or "controlling" a debt-ridden Europe, and any help Beijing may offer would be for purely economic reasons.

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North Koreans who try to escape the communist state are far from safety if they manage to make it into China, as they are often repatriated. On Tuesday, defectors and South Korean supporters protested at the Chinese Embassy in Seoul, calling on Beijing to stop sending defectors back home to North Korea, where they face possible persecution and death.

Activists in Seoul rallied on Tuesday urging China to stop repatriating North Korean defectors to their isolated state.

More than a hundred activists, including North Korean defectors now living in the South, gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul. They accused the North's new leadership, headed by the late Kim Jong-il's youngest son, Kim Jong-un, of excessive control.

[Im Chun-young, President, Free North Korea Military Union]:
"Kim Jong-un has treated North Korean defectors harsher than before since he does not want them to let the outside world know about the reality inside the communist country. Kim Jong-un does not have enough experience in the political system, so his first task is to control the inside of North Korea. Their first job is to stop North Korean defectors from running away from the country. North Korea concentrates their efforts on stopping them from running away, to control the inside."

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[Cho Byung-jae, Spokesman, South Korean Foreign Ministry]:
"They should not be forcibly returned (to the North) against their will. We have made it clear to China they should treat them from a humanitarian standpoint."

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According to statistics from Seoul's unification ministry, more than 20,000 North Koreans have defected to the South to escape poverty and repression in the North.

The two Koreas are still technically at war because an armistice, not a treaty, ended their 1950-53 civil conflict.