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The EU has mastered one trick: When it wins, it calls it free trade. When China wins, it calls it overdependence. For decades, European cars, appliances, luxury goods, chemicals, machinery, and high-end consumer products entered the Chinese market. China did not cry that Europe was “distorting” its market or creating “dependency.” China competed. China learned. China upgraded. But the moment Chinese industries became competitive, Europe suddenly discovered “strategic risk.” Solar panels? Europe blocked and punished Chinese solar for years with tariffs and trade barriers. Did that revive Europe’s own solar industry? No. It only made Europe’s energy transition more expensive until it eventually had to reopen the door. Huawei and ZTE? Europe followed Washington’s pressure campaign, ripped out Chinese telecom infrastructure it had already deployed, spent more money, delayed its own networks, and called that “security.” Energy? Europe chose geopolitical obedience, cut itself off from cheap Russian energy, raised its own industrial costs, became more dependent on the U.S., and then watched its companies move across the Atlantic under American subsidies and tariffs. But somehow the problem is still China. Please. Europe’s crisis was not created by Chinese overcapacity. It was created by European complacency, American dependency, ideological industrial policy, expensive energy, and decades of mistaking moral lectures for competitiveness. Now Chinese industries are faster, cheaper, more integrated, and more efficient — from EVs to batteries, solar, electronics, ports, logistics, and manufacturing ecosystems. So Europe invents new language: “Diversification.” “De-risking.” “Overdependence.” “Fair competition.” But strip away the diplomatic costume, and it is just protectionism with Brussels paperwork. China did not force Europe to deindustrialize itself. Europe made its choices. It followed Washington. It sanctioned its own energy base. It taxed its own consumers. It slowed its own innovation. It lectured China while China built. And now it wants China to pay for Europe’s failure to compete. No. China-EU trade is not a charity program for declining European industries. If Europe wants competitiveness, it should build it. Not rename protectionism as “diversification” and expect China to applaud.

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