{"id":131479,"date":"2025-06-20T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131479"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:00:08","slug":"were-not-billiard-balls-how-chinas-eu-charm-offensive-fell-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131479","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re not billiard balls\u2019: how China\u2019s EU charm offensive fell flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor half a year, a heated debate has raged over whether US President Donald Trump\u2019s return to office would push Europe and China closer together.<br \/>\nPragmatists, realpolitikers and Beijing\u2019s allies argued that the EU could not afford a trade war with both of the world\u2019s largest economies while footing the bill for a hot war in Ukraine.<br \/>\nFor months, EU leaders fuelled the speculation by voicing openness to deeper trade ties with Beijing, in a dramatic rhetorical shift from the previous three years of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3315150\/were-not-billiard-balls-how-chinas-eu-charm-offensive-fell-flat?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor half a year, a heated debate has raged over whether US President Donald Trump\u2019s return to office would push Europe and China closer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}