Behind the agreement on US-EU tariffs is the common front to the Chinese threat

BRUSSELS – The truce between the United States and the European Union in the “17-year war” between Airbus and Boeing has the Chinese threat as a background. If the two major Western economies have decided to suspend all hostility on the front of subsidies to the aeronautics, it is certainly due to the new climate that Joe Biden wants to create in transatlantic relations.