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news Scmp World 2026-06-16

Europe braces for escalating trade conflict with China

As regulatory hurdles and geopolitical tensions rise, European Union and Chinese firms are navigating a potentially full-blown trade dispute.


As trade tensions between Beijing and Brussels continue to rise, China’s firms in the European Union have been forced to walk a delicate tightrope: expanding their presence in the lucrative market while grappling with heightened regulatory hurdles and rapid geopolitical shifts. In the second part of this three-part series, we look at whether China and the EU are heading for a full-blown trade conflict. Last week, Beijing gathered more than a dozen Chinese companies in Berlin for a forum with a.....

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