China is a key focus of the EU’s efforts to 'de-risk' its supply chains, an effort led by Commission president Ursula von der Leyen The European Union has launched a review of key technologies including top-end microchips to decide whether trade protections are needed to stop critical know-how being acquired by rival powers. The move is a further step away from the EU’s past emphasis on trade liberalisation towards an approach that attempts to tailor economic ties to strategic geopolitical considerations, after vulnerabilities were exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday the European Commission recommended...