As the US is increasingly becoming an unpredictable global player under the Donald Trump presidency - by ignoring international agreements and upsetting the rule-based world order - the EU and China more and more find themselves to be allies in wanting to uphold multilateralism in dealing with global issues.
But there is a level of unease between the EU and China: while the two global players increasingly need each other, the lack of trust persists.
That underlying dynamic was ...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.