EU’s Vestager: Brussels Is Shedding Its Friendly Stance on Beijing
Margrethe Vestager speaks on Europe waking up to a systemic rivalry with China and how to avert a trade war with Washington.
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s competition chief, has spent years battling powerful corporations and U.S. tech giants in high-profile antitrust cases with billions of dollars of trade on the line. Now, she’s on the front lines of a new battle in West-China competition, as the Biden administration and European Union work to use their massive regulatory power to counter Chinese influence and revive their own cutting-edge and green technology industries.
Robbie Gramer is a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @RobbieGramer
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