Seeking détente with China, therefore, is still a dangerous game for the EU. Instead, the EU must realize it has other cards to play, including forging more advantageous trade agreements elsewhere in the world and changing China’s calculus about supporting Russia.

China has signalled for more than 15 years that it was looking to weaponise areas of the global supply chain, a strategy modelled on longstanding American export controls Beijing views as aimed at stalling its rise.

These play an important role in automotive production and the export restrictions are already having an impact. Reuters reports that Suzuki has been forced to cease production of the Swift due to component shortages related to the restrictions. Production reportedly ended on May 26 and may partially resume on June 13.

After Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, European countries are braced for a flood of Chinese goods that might not come.

China and France have agreed to resolve their trade disputes through dialogue, China's foreign ministry said on Friday, though there was no indication that agreement had been reached in talks on lifting Chinese levies on European brandy.

"We are in a new era of asset vulnerability," said John Hemmings, the Council on Geostrategy's deputy director for geopolitics.

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