For long, China was a magnet for America’s rhetorical aggression. Now, it is the Europeans who are under fire.

At a Munich Security Conference drinks reception this week, a seasoned Chinese observer who has been coming to Bavaria for more than a decade said China had long felt like an observer on the periphery. China was mentioned mainly to be blamed, they said – but things flipped last year when, instead of taking Beijing to task, US Vice-President J.D. Vance targeted Europe. Later in the weekend, the event’s CEO Benedikt Franke praised the China Centre for Globalisation – a Beijing think tank – for…

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