Sabine Weyand (Director General for Trade, European Commission) joins to discuss the EU’s trade policy agenda. This includes the new Comprehensive Agreement on Investment with China (0:39); the potential for transatlantic cooperation with the new Biden administration (10:45), and the EU’s new tools toward China (14:50), including on forced labor (19:00); Boeing-Airbus (23:50) and digital services taxes (27:40); the pandemic and open strategic autonomy (30:12), climate change and the EU’s Green Deal (32:54); as well as Brexit (40:57).

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