The EU Must Confront China’s Trade Challenge
There are three urgent reasons why the EU must tackle China’s destabilizing economic imbalances sooner rather than later. Delaying action until 2027 is not an option.

Grzegorz Stec is a Senior Analyst and Head of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) Brussels office. His research focuses on EU-China relations, including their institutional framework, strategic discourse deployed by the two sides and the EU’s common foreign policy building efforts.