EU TRADE POLICY AMIDTHE CHINA-US CLASH:CAUGHT IN THE CROSS-FIRE? BRUEGEL WORKING PAPER | ISSUE 07 | SEPTEMBER 2019
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