Washington has set up a pressure campaign to ensure that EU countries do not vacillate in the Beijing counter-campaign campaign to vote on the proposed prices of Brussels.
Chinese officials swayed the carrot of lucrative investments for those who oppose the tasks, as well as the stick of reprisals in goods such as porc, brandy and dairy products that would disproportionately affect those who voted in favor.
From the perspective of the vote, analysts have created countless graphics to predict where each capital would land in the EU complex voting system, assessing how sensitive they were for Beijing reprisals against the question if they could benefit from EV prices.
Barely half a year later, the unit is again tested, but with a twist: Europe turns some of the weapons it had formed on Beijing to Washington for potential use in the trade war of the allies of former allies.
