{"id":144347,"date":"2026-01-16T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144347"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:00:15","slug":"chinas-charm-offensive-beijing-bypasses-brussels-in-bid-to-soften-eu-trade-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144347","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s charm offensive: Beijing bypasses Brussels in bid to soften EU trade push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHua Chunying, China\u2019s foreign vice-minister, beamed this week as she presented a leading Czech lawmaker with a decorative porcelain plate \u2013 a gift that signalled a possible thaw in ties between Prague and Beijing.<br \/>\nThe image sent tongues wagging in Europe: a symbol that a new Chinese charm offensive towards a Europe jilted by its erstwhile ally across the Atlantic had reached even its most hawkish capitals.<br \/>\nChina has spent the opening weeks of the year courting European governments, offering&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3340190\/chinas-charm-offensive-beijing-bypasses-brussels-bid-soften-eu-trade-push?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 PostHua Chunying, China\u2019s foreign vice-minister, beamed this week as she presented a leading Czech lawmaker with a decorative porcelain plate \u2013 a gift that&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\/144347"}],"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=144347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}