{"id":153687,"date":"2026-06-29T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153687"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:00:23","slug":"eu-confronts-china-shock-ahead-of-pivotal-brussels-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153687","title":{"rendered":"EU confronts \u2018China shock\u2019 ahead of pivotal Brussels trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostEuropean Union leaders had a week to bask in their rare, relatively united stance on China policy before news broke to remind them of the urgency of their task: German car giant Volkswagen was reportedly planning up to 100,000 job cuts in the face of cutthroat Chinese competition.<br \/>\nSeven days previously at a European Council summit in Brussels, leaders from the EU\u2019s 27 member states had instructed the European Commission to accelerate its efforts to fight back against what is seen as a damaging&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3358660\/eu-confronts-china-shock-ahead-pivotal-brussels-trade-talks?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 PostEuropean Union leaders had a week to bask in their rare, relatively united stance on China policy before news broke to remind them of&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\/153687"}],"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=153687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}