LONDON - The European Union should enhance its dialogue with China and discuss more issues of strategic importance to both sides, European experts said.

"We need to discuss not only issues where we have shared interest, but also issues where we have conflicting interests," said Thomas Renard, a research fellow from the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, an independent think tank based in Brussels.

"A strategic partnership is not to discuss exclusively what is going well, but also to discuss what is not going well and to find solutions to it," he told China Daily.