{"id":377443,"date":"2025-08-27T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:06:11","slug":"chinese-firms-slam-trumps-claim-that-europe-gives-them-a-complete-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377443\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firms slam Trump\u2019s claim that Europe gives them \u2018a complete pass\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump has dragged China into his battle against European taxes and regulations targeting American technology giants, accusing Europe of singling out US firms and giving Chinese tech companies \u201ca complete pass\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The claim was quickly rejected by the Chinese business community, with one executive dismissing Trump\u2019s post as \u201cpolitical rhetoric\u201d that does not \u201calign with the reality\u201d, while analysts said the attack was likely part of Trump\u2019s plan to pressure Europe into easing regulations and favouring US firms.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on the Truth Social platform, Trump <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3323240\/eu-urged-unleash-trade-bazooka-response-trumps-tariff-threats?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=homepage?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">said he would take action against<\/a> \u201ccountries\u201d that use tools including digital taxes and digital service legislation \u201cto harm or discriminate against American technology\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump appeared to be making a coded reference to the digital taxes imposed by several European countries and the European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act regulating major tech companies \u2013 policies that the president has vocally opposed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThey also, outrageously, give a complete pass to China\u2019s largest tech companies,\u201d Trump added in the same post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The idea that Europe was soft on Chinese technology companies was strongly rebutted by Chinese businesses on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has dragged China into his battle against European taxes and regulations targeting American technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[67843,131699,1395,108139,7157,21469,32,2000,299,5187,1699,47584,507,31868,449,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-377443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-alibaba-group","9":"tag-american-technology","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-tech-companies","12":"tag-digital-markets-act","13":"tag-digital-services-act","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-huawei","20":"tag-microsoft","21":"tag-temu","22":"tag-tiktok","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100410445454180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}