“They might’ve got the wrong target — maybe they should be looking at the Americans,” she joked.
Casting the first stone
The scope of Beijing’s response to Europe has been nearly perfect, striking the three EU countries that have recently been toughest toward China — France, Spain, and the Netherlands, which has restricted exports to China of its ultra-strategic chipmaking tools — while minimizing collateral damage to friendlier countries, according to Jacob Gunter, lead analyst on economy for the Mercator Institute for China Studies.
“The bigger pork…
