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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/52578123
The EU should more assertively defend itself against major global competitors, a group of countries led by France has said in a policy paper … just days before a major strategy debate on China inside the European Commission.
As part of efforts to offer Europe’s industry – battered by the pandemic and multiple energy crisis – better means to compete with China’s state-backed firms, the call for a much more robust EU trade policy comes from France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Lithuania.
The rules-based trading system is “being undermined by a variety of actors and the rise of unfair trade practices,” the group agrees.
In response, Europe “should explore the opportunity to develop a broader, cross-sector trade defence tool”, the paper argues. By citing national security concerns linked to, say, China’s chokehold on a given rare earth, the bloc “could implement measures such as additional duties or TRQs, in order to protect European producers”.
TRQs, better known as quotas, have long been a favoured trade instrument in Paris.
On Friday, 29 May, the European Commission’s top brass will hold a debate on the bloc’s long-term strategy for dealing with China. In 2025, the EU’s trade deficit with China hit €360 billion, up a fifth from the year prior.
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The rules-based trading system is “being undermined by a variety of actors and the rise of unfair trade practices,” the group agrees.
You mean the system created by you? Isn’t subsidizing private companies the core tenant of capitalism? You are just angry that you are getting beaten at your own game.
Instead of actually developing industries to remove external dependancies that can be used as trade weapons, you go harder on doing the same expecting a different result…
These are always the same false and misleading narratives spread by propagandists.
It’s not the same. China’s support for its companies goes far beyond subsidies, and so does its protectionism of domestic markets, the country’s mercantilism used to create dependence especially of countries in the Global South that form the basis for political and economic coercion.
No European company could even remotely do what Chinese companies do in Europe. Chinese companies and platforms have even sold poisonous products in Europe, just to provide an example; any European company that sells such products would immediately shut down by the authorities.
But there are many admin and mods here who continue to spread pro-China, pro-Russian propaganda.
Calling me a propogandist in the opening line of your comment is not a productive way to have a discussion.
But there are many admin and mods here who continue to spread pro-China, pro-Russian propaganda.
And yet, nobody deletes your posts and comments that post Western equivalent.
The statements in your comments are simply false, and they mirror Chinese propaganda narratives. And your tonality (“You are just angry … beaten at your own game …”) perfectly fits these propaganda narratives that we see in the ml communities.
Here is one news form recent weeks:
French regulator says most e-commerce platform products it tested breach EU rules
France’s consumer protection authority said on Wednesday that three‑quarters of the products it tested from major e‑commerce platforms [like Shein and Temu] last year failed to meet EU standards.
The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said it had analysed more than 600 products bought from seven foreign online platforms in 2025, triple the number tested in previous years. It found 75% failed to meet EU rules, and 46% were both non-compliant and dangerous.
Any European company or platform that would sell such products would be shut down.
And this is just one example. Look at China’s economic policies. If the EU shuts down its markets for Chinese products, it would just do what China has been doing for decades to all foreign companies.
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Here’s another one: According to a recent study, 71% of the 210 products sold on Temu and Shein do not comply with EU legislation on chemicals. Its study of seven high-risk product groups found that electronic toys had the highest non-compliance rate at 81%.
Chinese companies and platforms have even sold poisonous products in Europe, just to provide an example; any European company that sells such products would immediately shut down by the authorities.
this is why nestle is no longer a company. it was shut down by the authorities. mmhm.
