{"id":29570,"date":"2026-07-20T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29570\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:14:12","slug":"can-europe-win-a-trade-war-with-china-it-may-depend-on-how-victory-is-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29570\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Europe win a trade war with China? It may depend on how victory is defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly behind the scenes, though, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3360556\/eu-signals-emergency-import-curbs-after-dramatic-surge-chinese-trade-gap?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europe is preparing for a trade war<\/a>. In Brussels, a steely determination has set in to ensure the bloc\u2019s manufacturing heartlands are not deindustrialised by the \u201cChina Shock 2.0\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With some industries already haemorrhaging jobs, the EU\u2019s resilience-building and de-risking plans are now laced with deterrents as Brussels looks to acquire leverage and credible retaliatory tools that would allow it to respond if China uses trade coercively.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts say the sides are already in a trade war, others think the two sides are still <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3360723\/eu-accuses-china-seeking-reshape-global-order-stark-new-strategy-paper?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">preparing for the inevitable storm<\/a> \u2013 and some say that a trade war should be avoided at all costs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But a question that is increasingly being asked is: could Europe actually win?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Few in Brussels share the hubris of US President Donald Trump, who in March 2018 said \u201ctrade wars are good, and easy to win\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quietly behind the scenes, though, Europe is preparing for a trade war. In Brussels, a steely determination has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,15944,381,16352,89,69,277,16353,16351,258,3597],"class_list":["post-29570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-denis-redonnet","tag-donald-trump","tag-dumping","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-commission","tag-soumaya-keynes","tag-subsidies","tag-tariffs","tag-trade-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116952725244190571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29570","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=29570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}