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EU faces scrap over control of tool to counter China coercion

EU institutions will sit down on Monday to begin drafting a final version of an anti-coercion trade instrument. (File photo)

BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) is quickly advancing with a powerful new trade weapon designed to curb economic bullying by China and other actors, but Brussels is girding itself for a scrap over who decides when to use it.

EU institutions will sit down on Monday for what are expected to be prickly negotiations to try to carve out a final version of the hotly anticipated anti-coercion instrument.

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