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

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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...