Links about China and China-EU relations that caught my eye this week
1) Europe’s China Shock 2.0 – Brookings assembled pithy comments from seven leading (mostly American) wonks on the situation. Most of them want ‘more Europe’.
2) The EU’s Šefčovič plans to check in with industry to see what they actually want in the coming China strategy.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-trade-chief-maros-sefcovic-meet-eu-ceos-over-china-strategy
3) My old friend Ben Judah thinks that the UK has completely lost its way on China. Much of what he says applies to EU states too.
https://benjudah0.substack.com/p/we-have-been-overtaken-britain-in
4) “Western medicine works faster” – the Chinese workers who settled an employment dispute by taking it to Europe.
https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/western-medicine-works-faster-phrase
and more broadly:
https://open.substack.com/pub/pekingnology/p/outside-help
5) The film everyone is talking about: “Once Upon A Time in the Middle East”, about a Chinese restaurant in thinly disguised wartime Iraq. SCMP gives it 3.5 stars out of 5.
Not sure if I’ll do another Five Shakes post next week, but definitely the week after