The European Union and the United States will seek to defuse their trade disputes and increase cooperation on issues including climate change and the development of new technology, but the European Union will remain internally divided over how aggressive to be on China. This will force the Biden administration to use a more piecemeal strategy to counter Beijing. U.S. President Joe Biden will be in Brussels on June 14-15 as a part of his ongoing visit to Europe, which started June 9 with a visit to the United Kingdom. European Commission trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis said June 9 that Brussels wants to end its trade disputes with the United States and is willing to lift its trade restrictions on U.S. products, but said the White House should first lift its tariffs on EU products.