{"id":133668,"date":"2025-07-29T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133668"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:30:09","slug":"if-china-no-longer-takes-europe-seriously-brussels-has-itself-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133668","title":{"rendered":"If China no longer takes Europe seriously, Brussels has itself to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe China-EU summit on July 24 confirmed what Beijing and Washington have long surmised: Europe has sidelined itself from great-power competition. After five decades of diplomacy, Brussels and Beijing have never been further apart, exactly as Trump\u2019s wedge intended. Yet the bridge to China wasn\u2019t demolished from abroad. Europe dismantled it, piece by piece, through its own incoherence.<br \/>\nBrussels\u2019 only meaningful gain was a marginal agreement on rare earths. The European Union\u2019s other concerns,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3319859\/if-china-no-longer-takes-europe-seriously-brussels-has-itself-blame?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 PostThe China-EU summit on July 24 confirmed what Beijing and Washington have long surmised: Europe has sidelined itself from great-power competition. After five decades&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\/133668"}],"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=133668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}