{"id":75722,"date":"2025-12-23T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/23\/the-second-china-shock-is-coming-and-the-uks-response-is-too-timid"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:00:51","slug":"the-second-china-shock-is-coming-and-the-uks-response-is-too-timid-george-magnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75722","title":{"rendered":"The second China shock is coming \u2013 and the UK\u2019s response is too timid | George Magnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s push to dominate technology through state-backed industrial policy is reshaping global trade and could devastate European industry<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron came back from China in early December empty-handed. The French president\u2019s appeal to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help stop the war in Ukraine was never going to gain traction given Beijing\u2019s unqualified support for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Urging Xi to address China\u2019s surging trade surplus, the result of the country\u2019s economic and industrial policies, predictably also fell on closed ears.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/23\/the-second-china-shock-is-coming-and-the-uks-response-is-too-timid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s push to dominate technology through state-backed industrial policy is reshaping global trade and could devastate European industryEmmanuel Macron came back from China in early December empty-handed. The French president\u2019s appeal to his Chines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"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":[6,50,437,558,557,1536,52,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-trade-policy","category-uk-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75722","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\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75722\/revisions\/75724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}