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China fires warning shots as EU turbocharges industrial policy

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Are China and Europe on the brink of a full-blown trade war? In recent months, the European Union has laid the groundwork for a more robust industrial policy amid anxiety over the bloc’s growing trade imbalance with China. In the past month, those efforts have kicked into overdrive:

On May 5, the S...