How Europe should handle its trade problem with China

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as a Europe-China trade problem that is tightening and may require policy action. The New York Times foregrounds China’s self-reliance push, the widening imbalance, and the pressure on European industries, while The Economist is more prescriptive, focusing on how Europe should handle the problem and, in its extract, saying talks may fail and that a template exists to force rebalancing.

Written by Crossfiled from the 1 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.