Can Europe stay united in China trade battle? Ceuta migrant crisis offers a warning

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The European Union faces internal division and stress from a migrant crisis in Ceuta on its southern border, complicating efforts to maintain a unified stance in its trade tensions with China. The crisis is seen as a warning for the EU ahead of critical trade negotiations with China.

The European Union’s traditional August break was supposed to provide officials with some respite ahead of a potentially bruising autumn when it will try to set its fiery trade relationship with China on a new course. Instead, a border crisis on its southern flank has created turmoil and division among its 27 members, raising questions over how prepared the bloc is for a dust-up with one of the world’s economic superpowers. “We had a real-time test of what happens when one member state was under...