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The EU Shouldn’t Rush Into a Comprehensive Trade Deal With China
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The EU Shouldn’t Rush Into a Comprehensive Trade Deal With China

China is trying to rush a deal through before EU-U.S. relations stabilize. Europe shouldn't cave.
The EU Shouldn’t Rush Into a Comprehensive Trade Deal With China

After more than six years of slow and mostly inconclusive negotiations, the European Union and China seem to be inching to a deal on their Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). Yet whatever concessions Beijing might have offered to Brussels in an effort to conclude the negotiations before the change of administrations of Washington, it would be a grave mistake for European negotiators to say yes to the Chinese offer. 

Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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