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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · A bleak picture for European exports to China · 3 Dec 2025 podcast

So are we in deep trouble now or could China leverage our need to sell to it for geopolitical reasons?

Robin Harding is the Asia editor with the Financial Times, and he wrote a controversial piece last week in which he painted a bleak picture for European exports to China.

He joins us now from Hong Kong.

Good morning, Robin.

Morning, Joe.

Now, the most stark line in your piece, Robin, in the FT last week was that there is nothing that China needs to import from Europe anymore.

Nothing that it can't make itself.

Worrying.

I just wonder whether this predates the Trump tariffs and the protectionism that we're seeing from the other side of the Atlantic, i.e.

that the Chinese have been deglobalizing for, you know, maybe at least five years.

So what do they do?

Now, you've already hinted that the Chinese still like importing our very expensive luxury products, Gucci or Louis Vuitton or whatever it is.

But for those nations like ours that are heavily dependent on exports, what should we do if we want to sell to the Middle Kingdom?

It sounds as if Europe needs to deepen its own single market to remove any remaining barriers to deepen its own domestic market, as it were.

But it could be economically devastating if European exporters can't find proper new markets, be they in other Asian countries or

or South America or potentially the other and the Middle East.

It is.

And your piece has certainly set the cat among the pigeons and got a lot of people thinking.

And I think that's useful in itself.

Robin, thank you so much for joining us from Hong Kong.

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