EU trade policy amid the China-US clash: caught in the crossfire? WORKING PAPER | ISSUE 07 | 16 SEPTMBER 2019. Bruegel
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2019

China’s rapid rise and unique economic system, and the United States’ increasingly disruptive trade policy, threaten the global rules based trade and economic system. The European Union has so far been comparatively spared from the US-China trade war, but must nevertheless safeguard its critical interests by adopting an independent, proactive stance. The EU does not currently have to make a general choice between China or the US, and like many other jurisdictions around the world it should aim t