{"id":151508,"date":"2026-05-17T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151508"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:00:06","slug":"a-sinking-ship-why-the-eu-and-china-could-be-heading-for-a-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151508","title":{"rendered":"A sinking ship? Why the EU and China could be heading for a trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSparks flew in a Beijing conference room this week, as diplomats, officials and experts from Europe and China clashed over their deepening trade problems.<br \/>\nChinese speakers were accused of dismissing Europe\u2019s long-standing complaints and ignoring the harsh economic reality of an increasingly lopsided trading relationship.<br \/>\nEU diplomats were accused of \u201cbullying\u201d, while the bloc\u2019s policies were billed as \u201cprotectionist\u201d efforts to decouple from China.<br \/>\nAt the acrimonious event hosted by the European&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3353867\/sinking-ship-why-eu-and-china-could-be-heading-trade-war?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 PostSparks flew in a Beijing conference room this week, as diplomats, officials and experts from Europe and China clashed over their deepening trade problems.&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\/151508"}],"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=151508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}