EU's dilemma on being hijacked by US

Since it is the United States that has defined China as a "threat" to Europe, the European Union now finds itself in a dilemma, as some of its members are more receptive of that view than others.

After the US launched its campaign to suppress the development of China's high-tech industry in 2018, with its actions targeting Huawei, it coerced its European allies to tag along, albeit many have done so with no great enthusiasm.

Now with Washington having broadened and intensified its efforts to impede China's development, it is no longer just Europe's 5G networks that Washington is intent on hijacking for its cause. It wants to dictate the EU's economic and trade policies. That has the EU uncomfortably caught on the proverbial horns as its two key institutions have different views on the merits of the US allegation.