Guillermo Pulido, director of the Center of Mexican Studies at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, sat down for an interview with China Daily. The Mexican expert was one of the foreign experts that China’s top political leader, Xi Jinping, met on Dec 5, 2012.

Peter Mandelson, former EU trade commissioner, had an exclusive interview with China Daily. He said the EU should not translate its economic difficulties into protectionist trade policies by looking for "unnecessary fights" with China as it slowly repairs its own economy.