China Direct would like to thank CBI member Bloomberg and Peter Martin [email protected] at their Beijing Bureau for sharing this note on EU-China relations.
'Even as Trump hammers away at Transatlantic solidarity, the EU and China can't hide their differences.
The EU-China Summit is opening today in Brussels and - unlike last year - will likely produce a nice-sounding joint statement and perhaps even some real solidarity on climate change.
But, beneath the surface, European officials share many of the same frustrations with China's trade and investment regime as the Trump administration, even if they don't express themselves with equal bluster.
The trajectory seems likely to be toward the kind of world that McMaster and Cohn described in their op-ed on Trumpian foreign policy this week: "an arena where nations, non-governmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage..."
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