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Europe's China policy lacks clear goals, creating exploitable vacuum

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Europe's approach to China lacks a unified strategy, leading to inconsistent actions such as threatening trade measures while simultaneously engaging in diplomatic visits. This indecisiveness allows China to exploit the situation by applying pressure and offering minor concessions, effectively gauging Europe's limits without significant compromise. The absence of clear priorities in Brussels means that while Europe may present new economic security tools as signs of control, China gains valuable insights into Europe's vulnerabilities. AI

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa,Franz Jessen ·

    Europe still has no clear goal on China

    This month alone, Europe has threatened China with a trade “kill switch”, rebuked it in parliament, sent its trade commissioner on a much-trumpeted trip to Beijing and announced three new economic security instruments. The sequence exposed a European Union that has no clear goal …

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