This has been going on for a year now. The EU began enforcing a small parcel tax directly against Temu last May [0] and France has been strongly lobbying again

This has been going on for a year now. The EU began enforcing a small parcel tax directly against Temu last May [0] and France has been strongly lobbying against Shein and Temu [1]. The EU has also made Chinese overproduction a critical topic of discussion for EU-China relations [2][3], and barring Temu and Shein is backed by both unions and industrial groups within Europe [4]. All of this is linking to the EU's strategy of playing hardball against Chinese support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine [5][6], as well as pushing back against the Chinese perception that the EU is a has-been [7] as well as conducting an active info-war against a European state [8]. [0] - https://www.ft.com/content/102e18d7-d06b-4405-a347-97bb3c37318b?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.ft.com/content/102e18d7-d06b-4405-a347-97bb3c373... [1] - https://www.ft.com/content/b1fdbad1-2793-4975-a10b-74bb928d3b13?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.ft.com/content/b1fdbad1-2793-4975-a10b-74bb928d3... [2] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/eu-lawmakers-press-china-unsafe-products-rare-beijing-visit-2026-04-01/ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/eu-law... [3] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260326IPR39405/china-visit-sustainable-e-commerce-fair-competition-and-product-safety https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260326IP... [4] - https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/09/15/les-industriels-europeens-du-textile-pressent-l-ue-d-agir-contre-les-plateformes-chinoises-comme-shein_6641258_3234.html https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/09/15/les-indus... [5] - https://www.bruegel.org/podcast/how-war-ukraine-reshaping-eu-china-relations https://www.bruegel.org/podcast/how-war-ukraine-reshaping-eu... [6] - https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2025-01-20/three-years-war-ukraine-chinese-russian-alliance-passes-test https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2025-01-... [7] - https://fddi.fudan.edu.cn/_t2515/57/f8/c21257a743416/page.htm https://fddi.fudan.edu.cn/_t2515/57/f8/c21257a743416/page.ht... [8] - https://www.defense.gouv.fr/desinformation/nos-analyses-froid/decryptage-desinformation-au-service-competition-industrielle https://www.defense.gouv.fr/desinformation/nos-analyses-froi...