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CER podcast: The politics of China-US-EU trade: Pulling up the drawbridge?

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4.452 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, and the CER’s Sander Tordoir and John Springford discuss green tech industrial policy and ‘de-risking’ trade with China. They discuss the growing consensus between Europe and the US on China, as well as the ‘risks of de-risking’ – how challenging China might slide into protectionism and weaken competition. John and Sander’s paper on the effects of Chinese and American green tech subsidies on Europe can be read here: https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2023/europe-american-chinese-green-tech Produced by Octavia Hughes Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0

From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.

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Poson us seriously the question of the

0:05.9

future that we want, and we all

0:08.0

all together, the courage to it construct.

0:10.5

For us in Germany, is the

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Bekenness to the European Europe,

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a part of our state's resolve.

0:15.6

A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,

0:17.9

because an integrated Europe remains vital to our

0:20.1

international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.

0:21.3

This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.

0:30.4

Hello and welcome to the CR podcast. I'm Sondon-Turdwar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for European Reform.

0:38.3

And today I'm joined by our deputy director, John Springford and Brad Setzer, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, to talk about industrial policy and derisking from China.

0:49.5

Brad worked for the Biden administration and is a leading expert in D.C. on international trade, capital

0:55.3

flows and macroeconomic policy. So welcome to the podcast. Thank you very much. That's a great

1:00.5

pleasure. Thanks. Thanks for being here. Just as a way of introduction, Biden's Inflation

1:06.0

Reduction Act, Chinese support for Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine have put derisking, especially from China,

1:15.4

as well as green tech industrial policy at the forefront of many policymakers' minds on both sides of the Atlantic.

1:23.5

If you look at solar panels, lithium batteries for electric cars and rare earth materials that

1:30.0

are key input to many green techs, there's a lot of dependence on China and that's leading

1:34.8

to policy changes.

1:36.1

It also seems as though the US and China have become less friendly to open markets and

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