Europe and China’s medical device tit
for tat shows that Trump tariffs aren’t
helping Beijing make friends
Posted By: sunset, 7/9/2025 8:26:17 PM
China and the European Union can’t seem to get along, despite sharing a common foe in U.S. President Donald Trump and his trade war. On Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that there needed to be a “genuine rebalancing” in the China-Europe relationship. Her comments cast a shadow over an upcoming China-EU summit, where the two sides are meant to hash out geopolitical and economic issues. In her comments, von der Leyen slammed China’s tactic of flooding “global markets with subsidized overcapacity” in order “to choke international competition,” and complained that European products were “systematically discriminated” against in China.
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China will just steal the medical devices IP to produce Chinese knockoffs. Meanwhile EU will continue selling their farmlands and critical agribusinesses to the CCP.