{"id":827236,"date":"2026-03-15T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/827236\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:54:14","slug":"tariffs-stockpiles-distrust-the-eus-messy-bid-to-ditch-china-hits-capacity-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/827236\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs, stockpiles, distrust: the EU\u2019s messy bid to ditch China hits capacity problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ambassadors from the EU\u2019s 27 member states will huddle in Brussels this week to thrash out a memorandum on critical minerals with the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Underpinning the debate will be a tension that girds many elements of the bloc\u2019s dealings in 2026: capacity versus trust.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The bloc\u2019s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, told the Financial Times last week that \u201cit is important for everybody to understand that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don\u2019t like the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A senior official added: \u201cWe know we cannot trust them as far as we can throw them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cNobody is under any illusions about Trump and the US any more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ambassadors from the EU\u2019s 27 member states will huddle in Brussels this week to thrash out a memorandum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[186,3801,748,11330,1395,2000,299,5187,1699,36,18431,1824,366,730,774,2199,2132,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-827236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-brussels","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-g7","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-greenland","21":"tag-india","22":"tag-iran","23":"tag-italy","24":"tag-mexico","25":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116232825524310880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827236","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=827236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}