Refusing cheaper goods for arbitrary reasons just makes EU look stupid.

In this context we must consider also forced labour in China. We need also transparent supply chains, which is exactly what the Chinese government rejects. Any trade agreement without human rights clauses is useless imo.

I respectfully disagree. It’s not that I say the EU should stop trading with China, but the bloc needs to re(!)-develop an own industry to gain a high level of independence. Europe already had a thriving renewable energy industry in the 2000s (and it decisively helped finance China’s industry). But I agree with your first statements about no remote storage and enforcing EU legal jurisdictions.