Europeans need to think about China with their own heads rather than reflexively doing what the US does minus a small amount—the derisking approach is potentially good but came from US lead rather than independent European thinking.

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Nathalie Tocci

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the struggle that Europeans are in is learning to think about China with their own heads... the US says decoupling and we say derisking. Uh so, and maybe derisking is a good policy... But the point is that we came to it through a route which at the moment is not available

Source

Nathalie Tocci and Matthias Matthijs: Are Europe and the United States Finally Heading For Divorce?Foreign Affairs
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:08:35 PM

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