
In a soulless conference room in Brussels in November, officials and experts from around Europe and the United States were locked in a technical debate over a cryptic bit of economic jargon: global non-market overcapacity.Beneath the geography-free legalese so common in Brussels, China was undoubtedly the subject.
The conference, organised by the European Commission, was designed to thrash out solutions to the problem of overcapacity in China’s economy and the second-order effects Europe...