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Trump envoy urges Europe to ‘link arms’ against China
But first Brussels must start correcting the ‘enormous’ trade imbalances that have stoked transatlantic tensions, says Gordon Sondland.
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- Politico
Donald Trump’s man in Brussels has a simple message for Europe: Let’s be friends — and fight China.

Describing China’s influence as “malign,” Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told POLITICO that his country and the EU should overcome their current trade tensions and…
“We should … combine our mutual energies — we have a $40 trillion combined GDP, there is nothing on the planet that is more powerful than that — to meet China and…