Lovely speaks to South China Morning Post about the EU's new trade policy

February 22, 2021

The South China Morning Post

Mary E. Lovely

Economics Department

China

Europe

Foreign Policy

International Agreements

Trade

The South China Morning Post

Mary E. Lovely

Last week, the EU unveiled a new foreign trade policy that signals greater cooperation with Washington and warns of unspecified measures it reserves the right to take against China to blunt "negative spillovers" from the approach Beijing takes to trade and investment. "The new EU trade policy tries to strike a principled balance between the U.S. and China, with clear signals to both that it will set its own course," says Professor Mary Lovely. "Finding a way forward that is both 'open' and 'autonomous' will be difficult, however, as openness brings interdependence," she says. Read more in the South China Morning Post article, "European Union unveils new trade policy, warns of measures to blunt 'negative spillovers' from China."