{"id":148682,"date":"2026-03-27T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148682"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:01:16","slug":"merz-floats-eu-china-deal-trumps-new-beijing-date-european-lawmakers-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148682","title":{"rendered":"Merz floats EU-China deal, Trump\u2019s new Beijing date, European lawmakers visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz signalled support for a European Union-China trade deal, as rising tensions with the United States complicate Europe\u2019s response to a growing flood of low-cost Chinese imports.<br \/>\nMerz told German lawmakers on Wednesday he could envisage an agreement with China in \u201cthe longer term\u201d among other trade accords. \u201cWe now need strategic partnerships around the world in order to strengthen ourselves, especially our exports,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe comments highlight an emerging split&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3348115\/merz-floats-eu-china-deal-trumps-new-beijing-date-european-lawmakers-visit?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 PostGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz signalled support for a European Union-China trade deal, as rising tensions with the United States complicate Europe\u2019s response to a&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\/148682"}],"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=148682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}