Stephen Olson is senior adjunct fellow with the Pacific Forum, a foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a visiting lecturer and nonresident fellow with the Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In the wake of the European Union’s provisional decision last week to impose punitive tariffs on EV imports from China, the table is now set for Brussels and Beijing to strike the kind of messy, managed trade deal that drives trade purists crazy but which can sometimes ameliorate otherwise intractable political problems.