EU’s Gentiloni Plays Down Risk of China Retaliation on EV Probe

  • Brussels launched an investigation into Chinese subsidies
  • Gentiloni says Chinese retaliation is ‘always possible’
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The European Union downplayed the potential of a harsh Chinese response to the bloc’s investigation of electric-vehicle subsidies.

“There is no specific reason for retaliation,” Paolo Gentiloni, the EU’s economy chief, told reporters ahead of a meeting in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Friday. “But retaliation is always possible in this kind of thing.”