分析人士认为，欧盟可能终于在对华问题上迎来了时机。欧洲各国首都在最近成功为北京的混合动力汽车进口设定上限后，终于正在培养“脊梁骨”以应对中国巨额贸易顺差，并拥有相应工具，一位经济学家在《中国金融博客》中写道。
The EU may finally be meeting the moment on China, analysts argued. European capitals, having recently won a cap on Beijing’s hybrid vehicle imports, are finally developing “the backbone” to battle China’s massive trade surplus and have the tools to do so, an economist wrote in The Wire China.
但即使拥有“令人印象深刻”的贸易工具箱，如果缺乏使用它们的能力，也毫无用处，切atham House的一位专家在《外交政策》中指出。
But even an “impressive collection” of trade instruments means little without the wherewithal to use them, a Chatham House expert argued in Foreign Policy.
前英国首相里希·苏纳克呼吁成立“国家联盟”以对抗“中国巨无霸”，并在《泰晤士报》中警告称，若没有这样的联盟，北京“将成功打造一个我们都依赖中国而中国却不依赖任何人的世界”。
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for “a coalition of countries” to counter “the Chinese juggernaut,” warning in The Times that without one, Beijing “will succeed in creating a world in which we are all dependent on China while China depends on no one.”