{"id":1612,"date":"2026-03-31T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/1612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:14:08","slug":"europe-urged-to-learn-to-fight-for-itself-in-case-us-china-truce-collapses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/1612\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe urged to \u2018learn to fight for itself\u2019 in case US-China truce collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European governments breathed a sigh of relief in October when the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-china-relations?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US and China<\/a> sealed a fragile trade truce that paused more sweeping Chinese <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/rare-earths?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rare earth<\/a> restrictions and papered over a Sino-Dutch row over chipmaker <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/nexperia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nexperia<\/a>.Now, however, the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/european-union?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">European Union<\/a> is being urged to come up with a battle plan should the ceasefire fail or expire.A spike in superpower tensions could expose the EU to Chinese export controls, potentially pulverising its military support for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ukraine-war?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>, its own efforts to rearm, as well as its broad industrial upgrade, according to a new paper from the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To ready itself, Europe must \u201clearn to fight for itself\u201d by realising the economic weapons at its disposal, but also figure out when and how to use them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis could expire in a few months \u2013 what happens when this deal is over? If China comes back and reinstates export controls you\u2019d better be prepared. We should not wait until the next crisis hits, you have to build up your cards now,\u201d said Tobias Gehrke, an expert in geoeconomics at ECFR and lead author of the report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774941127_233_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Inside the Nexperia crisis: the future of chip supply chain | China Future Tech webinar<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Nexperia crisis: the future of chip supply chain | China Future Tech webinar<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The report identifies a swathe of economic weaponry in the EU\u2019s arsenal that it could use in its dealings with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European governments breathed a sigh of relief in October when the US and China sealed a fragile trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1925,276,81,1924,66,39,4,1660,40,92,94,26,1926,748,28,63,382,1923],"class_list":{"0":"post-1612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-asml","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-comac-c919","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european-council-on-foreign-relations","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-greenland","19":"tag-netherlands","20":"tag-nexperia","21":"tag-south-china-morning-post","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}