The EU can learn from Japan and South Korea on trading with China

Now is not a time for grand geopolitical ambitions, but rather concrete economic achievements

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Europe is new to the concepts of geopolitics and power maximization. Brussels is still adapting to a world where its rules based, regulatory approach have been superseded by the eruption of the U.S.-China rivalry. © Torsten Sukrow/SULUPRESS.DE/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Eoin Drea is senior researcher in the Belgium-based Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

One consequence of Donald Trump's reelection is that it underlines the common economic challenges facing the European Union, Japan and South Korea.

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