{"id":63863,"date":"2024-05-06T22:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/06\/eu-restates-readiness-to-launch-trade-war-with-china-over-cheap-imports"},"modified":"2024-05-07T02:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:57:12","slug":"eu-restates-readiness-to-launch-trade-war-with-china-over-cheap-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63863","title":{"rendered":"EU restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloc \u2018will not waver\u2019 from making tough decisions to protect economy and security, says Ursula von der Leyen<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/may\/06\/europe-live-china-xi-jinping-paris-trade-ukraine-emmanuel-macron-ursula-von-der-leyen\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The EU has restated its readiness to launch a trade war with China over imports of cheap electric cars, steel and cheap solar and wind technology, with Ursula von der Leyen saying the bloc will \u201cnot waver\u201d from protecting industries and jobs after a meeting with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, on his multi-day tour of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission chief said she was \u201cconvinced that if the competition is fair\u201d from China, then Europe \u201cwill have thriving durable economies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/06\/eu-restates-readiness-to-launch-trade-war-with-china-over-cheap-imports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloc \u2018will not waver\u2019 from making tough decisions to protect economy and security, says Ursula von der LeyenEurope live \u2013 latest updatesThe EU has restated its readiness to launch a trade war with China over imports of cheap electric cars, steel and ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,437,530,558,557,2709,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-economics","category-european-union","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-ursula-von-der-leyen","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63870,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63863\/revisions\/63870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}