Were Trump to follow through on his vow to impose tariffs on imports on Europe as well as from China, they would likely deviate further.
There is also uncertainty across the continent about what the new White House will mean for the war in Ukraine.
In their view, China could help to pressure Russia over Ukraine as Xi loses patience with a war he did not expect would drag on for almost three years.
One senior European diplomat said that while China has never explicitly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has helped in other ways to rein in Moscow.
continues to say that Ukraine will negotiate when Ukraine wants to negotiate,” another European official said, “and that the E.U.
Persons:
Donald Trump, don’t, Trump, Vladimir Putin, “, Olaf Scholz, Putin, Sydney Walsh, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ‘, Mike Waltz, Xi, Sergey Bobylev, ”, Keir Starmer, Xi Jinping, Starmer, Jimmy Lai, Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, David Lammy, Wang Yi, Liu Bin, Joe Biden, Wu Xinbo, ” Wu, ” Cao Lei, Kim Jong, trickier, ” Keir Simmons, Jennifer Jett
Organizations:
NBC, Union, NBC News, “, U.S, Economist, Chinese Communist Party, Getty Images, ”, Group, British, Xinhua News Agency, Getty, Trump, Center for American Studies, Fudan University, University of Hong Kong’s, Contemporary, Foreign, South China
Locations:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Beijing, Brussels, China, Europe, Ukraine, we’ll, Kazan, Russia, Anadolu, South, Taiwan, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Britain, Hong Kong, British, Shanghai, “, Contemporary China, “ China, European, North Korea, U.S, Dubai