{"id":27548,"date":"2026-07-09T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27548\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:12:10","slug":"how-europes-rush-for-chinese-air-conditioners-exposes-the-gap-in-brussels-trade-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27548\/","title":{"rendered":"How Europe\u2019s rush for Chinese air conditioners exposes the gap in Brussels\u2019 trade policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heatwave is driving unprecedented demand for Chinese air conditioners<\/a> in Europe, just as Brussels seeks to narrow its record trade deficit with China through new restrictions.Observers said this exposed a glaring contradiction between public demand and political rhetoric, adding that the European Union was shifting blame for the trade deficit<\/a> instead of addressing its own structural shortcomings.The record-breaking heatwave<\/a> has disrupted transit infrastructure, triggered droughts and led to thousands of heat-related excess deaths across the continent, forcing countries such as France and the Netherlands to issue red alerts for consecutive days.<\/p>\n

Governments of European countries are struggling to cope with the extreme weather, facing sharp criticism over poor emergency management and underinvestment in public services and climate policy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Europeans are flocking to buy Chinese air conditioners, leading to a dramatic surge in demand for certain portable units, even as Brussels toughens its trade policy towards Beijing.<\/p>\n

Ding Chun, director of the Centre for European Studies at Fudan University, highlighted the disconnect between Brussels\u2019 leadership and ordinary citizens, noting that the public naturally focused on cost-of-living realities and daily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heatwave is driving unprecedented demand for Chinese air conditioners in Europe, just as Brussels seeks to narrow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[954,18,400,15480,15482,89,15479,15478,69,15477,11843,125,115,10885,14276,15481,180,12306,1711,2031],"class_list":["post-27548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-beijing","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-cui-hongjian","tag-ding-chun","tag-eu","tag-eu-trade-deficit","tag-eu-china-trade","tag-europe","tag-europe-heatwave","tag-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-fudan-university","tag-heatwave","tag-nice","tag-the-netherlands","tag-trade-deficit","tag-us","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116890196124999793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548","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=27548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}