As Threat of Trump Tariffs Looms, Europe’s Leaders Seek Greater Unity

China doesn’t want a more capable North Korean military,

the diplomat said

They have been firm with Russia about not using nuclear weapons with Ukraine,

the diplomat said

We don’t want to be dragged into the foreign policy toward China which the new American administration will be engaged in,

said one of the senior European officials

China supports Europe in playing a greater role in international affairs, but does not wish to see it pick a side and provoke bloc confrontation,

Cao Lei, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s deputy head in charge of European affairs, was quoted as saying by the South China Morning Post this month

The impact of Trump is panic,

one European Union official told NBC News on Sunday

That will give Europeans more leeway in managing their relations with China,

Wu said Monday at an event hosted by the University of Hong Kong’s Centre on Contemporary China and the World

The E.U. continues to say that Ukraine will negotiate when Ukraine wants to negotiate, ... and that the E.U. will stand by Ukraine to the end.”

another European official said

The pay, pay, pay strategy wasn’t working,

the E.U. official said

Europe is freaked out by all this,

the E.U. official added

You can see the need for it from the Ukrainians, you can see the Europeans saying we aren’t going to finance this huge and endless fight,

they said

If the U.K. re-engages in these political and economic ties with the E.U., it makes it less likely that Trump will go for a free-trade agreement with the U.K,

said Stephen Moore, a senior economic adviser to the Trump campaign

You guys have to decide,

he said in an interview, addressing the British public