{"id":21907,"date":"2026-06-17T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21907\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:30:15","slug":"if-brussels-starts-a-trade-war-beijing-will-finish-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21907\/","title":{"rendered":"If Brussels starts a trade war, Beijing will finish it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">Wargaming the EU-China conflict warns Europe against aggression towards an opponent with superior firepower<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">IT\u2019S showdown time. From Jun 18 to 19, European Union leaders will meet in Brussels to decide how to <a class=\"text-verticals-btblue underline hover:text-blue-500\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/international\/china-confronts-g7-during-macrons-call-defending-free-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">take on China over trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Then again, these days it\u2019s always showdown time. For years, the EU has become increasingly alarmed at China\u2019s dominance of green technology and its interventionist trade and industrial policy, but done little to combat it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6 inline-block\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Internal divisions have restrained EU assertiveness. Germany and Spain, wanting to protect \u2013 respectively \u2013 exports to and inward electric vehicle investment from China, stand ready with buckets of cold water to cool down what they see as hot-headed trade warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wargaming the EU-China conflict warns Europe against aggression towards an opponent with superior firepower IT\u2019S showdown time. From&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,400,125,4451,13550,181,3597],"class_list":["post-21907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-european-union","tag-geopolitics","tag-the-bottom-line","tag-trade","tag-trade-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116765695903783101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}