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Media coverage | 2 March 2020

ELN Director Adam Thomson quoted in Bloomberg

China NATO Euro-Atlantic Security

ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson is quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek on NATO in light of US President Trump’s Huawei demands.

“There is quite a feeling in Europe that Europe is being coerced on some fairly key foreign policy issues, whether it is Iran or China, more by the United States, ironically, than by either Russia or China.”

“It’s simply a natural fact of life that if you are coerced in this way with threats and trade sanctions by your closest ally, you start wondering how much of an ally they are.”

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