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Could Europe’s cost-of-living protests sharpen EU-China trade tensions?

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Friday, October 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM · 1 min read
Could Europe’s cost-of-living protests sharpen EU-China trade tensions? — South China Morning Post, Laredo Business news
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As violent protests fuelled partly by the cost-of-living crisis shake parts of Europe, most notably France, analysts say the unrest could add to pressure on European policymakers to take a tougher trade stance towards China. “One could argue that the EU looks weaker, but then one could also argue that there is more of a need to show external strength at a time of such events,” said David Henig, director of the UK Trade Policy Project at the European Centre for International Political...

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