{"id":138106,"date":"2025-10-10T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138106"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:15:25","slug":"us-and-china-have-killed-free-trade-former-french-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138106","title":{"rendered":"US and China have killed free trade, former French minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer French finance minister Eric Lombard accused the United States and China of killing free trade and called for the European Union to pursue a more \u201cnationalistic\u201d approach to trade policy in response during a speech in Paris on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u201cFree trade is over, it is dead,\u201d Lombard told a summit on competitiveness organised by Politico in the French capital.<br \/>\nHe urged France and Europe to \u201cwake up\u201d to the fact that the US and China were employing unfair trade practices that deviate from free&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3328509\/us-and-china-have-killed-free-trade-former-french-minister-says?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 PostFormer French finance minister Eric Lombard accused the United States and China of killing free trade and called for the European Union to pursue&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\/138106"}],"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=138106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}