Expert Explains Why Europe Is Concerned By The Ongoing U.S.-China Trade War

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On "Forbes Newsroom", Fellow at the European Foreign Relations Council, Liana Fix, discussed the concerns Europe has about the continued trade war between the U.S. and China.

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00:00Hi, everyone. I'm Maggie McGrath, senior editor at Forbes. On Monday, China warned other countries

00:10to not curb their trade with China in an attempt to curry favor with U.S. President Trump.

00:18Joining us to discuss this political landscape on a global level is Liana Fix. She is a fellow

00:24for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has an expertise on Germany and European

00:30foreign policy, but also European China policy. Liana, thank you so much for being here.

00:36Absolutely. Thank you for the invite.

00:38So U.S.-China trade relations has been a major point of news over the last several weeks,

00:45really ever since Liberation Day. But let's set the stage from your perspective as a European

00:50expert. Can you kind of describe what the last few weeks have been like for European countries as

00:57America has announced these massive tariffs? Yeah. So first of all, Europeans themselves

01:03are, of course, affected by the tariffs. Donald Trump has also announced tariffs of the European

01:07Union. Now the administration has been saying they're hopeful that a deal can be struck soon

01:12because the U.S. market is obviously a big market for the U.S. side. But then the problems between

01:18the U.S. and China, the wildly escalating trade and tariff war between the U.S. and China and the

01:23fact that they are still looking for an exit strategy out of this escalation spiral also has

01:28implications for Europe. Because if China doesn't have access to the U.S. market anymore, then China

01:34has become an export superpower. Something that Germany has been in the past has now been taken over by

01:40China. China is exporting massively and has huge overcapacities in many industrial goods and many

01:46consumer goods. China will look for other markets if it can't export to the United States. And Europe

01:52is concerned that it's going to be the one market that's still open and going to be flooded by Chinese

01:57products that can't be sold anymore to the United States.

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