EU Trade Minister Valdis Dombrovskis is headed to China, reportedly with the message to sign onto some form of trade agreement giving Europe assurances of a more balanced relationship, or risk things getting worse. It doesn’t help when Beijing’s rhetoric is over-wrought. The EU has full WTI rights to open a safeguard investigation into imports of EV’s from China but Beijing calls it “a naked act of protectionism.”  This kind of aggressive over-reaction requires the recent acerbic reactions by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel. For example, China has banned imports of seafood from Japan since Tokyo decided to release treated Fukushima waste water into the ocean. Yet China continues to harvest fish from...