{"id":518539,"date":"2025-10-22T02:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/518539\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:45:14","slug":"germany-and-france-back-china-trade-discussion-at-eu-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/518539\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and France back China trade discussion at EU summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany and France are supporting a push to discuss China\u2019s increasingly restrictive trade measures at a European Union leaders\u2019 summit in Brussels on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>France and Poland have suggested adding a line to the summit\u2019s conclusions on China\u2019s harmful economic actions, the people added.<\/p>\n<p>And Germany is willing to at least talk about using the bloc\u2019s most powerful retaliatory trade measure \u2014 what&#8217;s referred to as the anti-coercion instrument \u2014 as Beijing clamps down on access to vital materials, according to a Berlin official. The topic may come up during a competitiveness conversation at the summit, the official added, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the confidential talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany and France are supporting a push to discuss China\u2019s increasingly restrictive trade measures at a European Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1395,2000,299,36,1824,1201],"class_list":{"0":"post-518539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115415529847227257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518539","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=518539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}