Japan and Europe are not used to thinking of themselves as collateral damage in other countries’ trade wars. The EU in particular, the largest trading bloc by the amount of exports and imports for goods and services, is more used to dictating terms than to obeying them. So it is something of a comedown for Tokyo and Brussels to find their main role in the continuing US-China trade conflict is to try to duck out of the way and attempt to channel the torrents of American anger at Beijing down the canals of multilateralism.
日本和歐洲不習慣把自己看成是其他國家之間貿易戰的附帶損害。特別是按貨物和服務進出口量計算是最大貿易集團的歐盟，更習慣制定條款，而不是遵守條款。因此，對東京和布魯塞爾來說有點下不來臺的是，發現它們在持續的美中貿易衝突中的主要角色是試圖避開鋒芒，並嘗試將美國對北京方面的憤怒引導到多邊主義管道上。
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