Sparks flew in a Beijing conference room this week, as diplomats, officials and experts from Europe and China clashed over their deepening trade problems. Chinese speakers were accused of dismissing Europeโs long-standing complaints and ignoring the harsh economic reality of an increasingly lopsided trading relationship. EU diplomats were accused of โbullyingโ, while the blocโs policies were billed as โprotectionistโ efforts to decouple from China. At the acrimonious event hosted by the European...