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For all the vagueness of its recent sanctions on Europeans, China could not have been clearer in its resolve to counter any more determined European stand against the country, including through economic punishment.
The European Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force for Strengthening Europe against Economic Coercion brings together high-level European public and private sector actors to analyse a range of policies Europe could adopt to improve its resilience. Drawing on this systematic consultation process, the ECFR toolbox analysed concrete options for the EU to resist economic blackmail and punishment such as Chinese sanctions, and to avoid them in the first place.