Economic Security
Interview
Three Seas Initiative is Going Strong – Interview with Krzysztof Domarecki
21 April 2026
19 September 2025
As Donald Trump began his second term in office, European officials hoped that the need to act against China would bridge transatlantic relations. Instead, Europe would go on to experience economic coercion like never before, caught between US trade threats and China’s rare earth controls. So, what strategy should Europe adopt for China? What are the risks, and opportunities?
At the Europe Future Forum 2025, our annual strategic foresight event in mid-September, Staś Kaleta sat down with Noah Barkin, Senior Advisor in Rhodium Group’s China practice and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Indo-Pacific Programme at the German Marshall Fund. This is an edited transcript of their discussion, and you can listen to the full podcast below:
Staś Kaleta: What do you make of Donald Trump‘s recent Truth Social post, demanding that NATO allies impose 50-100% tariffs on China? Could something like this ever happen?