In a Newly Bipolar World, Europe Is Caught in the Middle

But Donald Trump, and his aggressive “America First” economic and tariff policies are posing a challenge not only to China, but also to the U.S.’s European allies and states like Canada, Japan and South Korea. Although China has so far reacted to tariffs from the U.S. in tit-for-tat fashion, it has also selectively lowered duties on imports from other countries — Canadian lobster, for example. At the Silk Road summit earlier this year, which several European leaders traveled to Beijing to attend, Xi Jinping admitted that some criticism of China was completely understandable.

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