EU determined to resist US efforts to use trade and technology council as joint platform to target Beijing

US secretary of state Antony Blinken at a press conference at the National Museum in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday after an informal Nato meeting of foreign ministers. Photograph: EPA After a meeting with senior EU officials in Sweden this week, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said there was "convergence" between Washington and Brussels over China. European commissioners Margarethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis were too polite to disagree during the EU-US press conference but their silence about China spoke volumes. The joint statement that followed the meeting of the EU-US trade and technology council on Wednesday included only two explicit…