Outside voices: Out-of-sync China trade approaches raise U.S.-EU collaboration questions

Divergent ways of addressing China trade could serve to undermine U.S. efforts to forge joint security and economic strategies, and their underpinnings to technology development, with the European Union, warn two Peterson Institute for International Economics in a new analysis of the changing relationships among the world’s three largest traders. The difference lies in the U.S. commitment to reduce dependence on China product, at a time when the EU and China are “maintaining and even increasing their interdependence” for almost...