European leaders have a chance to fortify their countries, but this will require conscious restraint from short-term and short-sighted rapprochement with China. With America’s foreign policy so volatile and China’s dominance looming, like-minded countries must align their economic defences. Getting coalition building rightThe India-EU trade deal this week proves that a like-minded approach to China can provide economic and strategic payoffs. Europe and India are formidable powers: the EU is the second-largest economy in the world, India is the fourth and rising fast. He deliberately went to India first and has been clearer than any of his predecessors about the need to de-risk from China.