{
  "id": 16046612,
  "title": "Europe still has no clear goal on China",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/europe-still-has-no-clear-goal-on-china",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T12:30:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3371543/europe-still-has-no-clear-goal-china"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This month alone, Europe has threatened China with a trade “kill switch”, rebuked it in parliament, sent its trade commissioner on a much-trumpeted trip to Beijing and announced three new economic security instruments. The sequence exposed a European Union that has no clear goal on China, no hierarchy of priorities and has reached no agreement on what it wants from Beijing or on what it would pay…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}