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2026-11-04 · South China Morning Post · Politics

Bad to worse? Europe’s relief over US midterms tempered by prospect of Trump backlash

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2026-10-12 · South China Morning Post · Politics

How China and the EU pressed pause on trade war – and what it took to get there

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2026-10-09 · South China Morning Post · Politics

China and EU reach ‘understanding’ on hybrid vehicles after crunch trade talks

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2026-10-07 · South China Morning Post · Politics

Last chance saloon: EU presses China for a sign to prove trade talks can work

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2026-10-15 · South China Morning Post · Politics

Emboldened by hybrid car deal, Europe coalesces around tougher China stance

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2026-10-28 · South China Morning Post · Politics

EU plans high-level China currency talks as fears of new trade shock mount

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2026-09-30 · South China Morning Post

🔮 EU weighs sweeping new trade powers against China before make-or-break October Europe’s actions in coming weeks could set the course of EU-China relations for years to come and the mood in Brussels is hardening mixed

2026-10-01 · South China Morning Post

🔮 EU retools Trump trade war tripwire into China shipments surge alarm Bloc’s trade enforcement chief says the system is already picking up what may be worrying trends in a range of product categories The bloc was concerned that Chinese shipments bound for the United States would be diverted to Europe at lower prices, imperilling local manufacturers. speculative

2026-10-07 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Last chance saloon: EU presses China for a sign to prove trade talks can work Brussels hopes Chinese commerce ministry will agree to modest ‘proof-of-concept’ arrangement at top-level meetings in Beijing assertive

2026-10-08 · South China Morning Post

🔮 ExclusiveGerman President Steinmeier targets China trip as Berlin sharpens trade stance Trip coincides with Merz’s Asia tour as Berlin and Paris advocate new EU mechanism to exclude rule-breaking trade partners It will mark the first official visit to China since 2018 for Steinmeier, a former foreign minister whose decade-long tenure as president ends in March 2027. assertive

2026-10-09 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Beijing is “willing to continue” fast-tracking licenses for rare earth mineral exports to Europe, while the sides will continue negotiations on reducing tariffs and creating minimum price deals that would allow Chinese electric vehicles to enter the EU market at a lower duty rate, according to the statement. assertive

2026-10-12 · South China Morning Post

🔮 EU officials spoke of a ‘paradigm shift’ in wake of surprise trade deal, saying the ‘nature of the rebalancing exercise has changed’ Weeks of high-wire negotiations between China and the EU culminated in a surprise trade deal that will, among other measures, impose strict quotas on Chinese hybrid car exports to the bloc and slash Chinese tariffs on a variety of European goods. assertive

2026-10-15 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Intensive dialogue is seen to have yielded results and will continue. assertive

2026-10-16 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Latest flare-up suggests danger of trade war between two of the world’s three biggest economies has far from de-escalated 3-MIN READ3-MIN Listen Beijing warned Brussels not to “fantasise” that taking a hard line will force it into concessions, as the bloc confirmed plans for a gung-ho new kill switch that will allow Brussels to “immediately” kick China out of the single market. Exactly a week after the two sides struck a surprise deal to restrict the volume of hybrid cars China ships to Europe, the flare-up suggests the threat of a trade war between two of the world’s three biggest economies has far from subsided. mixed

2026-10-22 · South China Morning Post

🔮 In exchange, Beijing has pledged that the company will refrain from shipping banned items to Russian military-linked buyers. assertive

2026-10-23 · South China Morning Post

🔮 France ‘certain’ united front with Germany pushed China into hybrid car deal French Trade Minister Nicolas Forissier urges the bloc to stay the course, despite China warning that it would retaliate assertive

2026-10-28 · South China Morning Post

🔮 ExclusiveEU plans high-level China currency talks as fears of new trade shock mount Top officials will visit the Chinese capital in the coming months in a bid to persuade Beijing to revalue the yuan, according to sources Plans are in the works, meanwhile, for a heavyweight trio – from the European Central Bank, Eurogroup and European Commission – to follow them there around the turn of the year, though no final date has been set, according to multiple people familiar with the planning. speculative

2026-11-04 · South China Morning Post

🔮 After almost two years in which the transatlantic alliance verged on collapse, a Democratic landslide in the US midterm elections was welcomed in Europe on Wednesday, even if few believed it would be a panacea for ailing ties. assertive