【新闻摘要】
中美贸易战打得火热，有人突发奇想：中欧能否联手"抗美"，搞个贸易"兄弟盟"？结果7月24日的北京峰会现场可能比冷掉的咖啡还尴尬——原计划庆祝建交50周年的香槟，现在怕是连气泡都懒得冒了。
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IN THE EARLY months of America’s trade war against the world, speculation mounted.
在美国对全球发动贸易战的初期，各种猜测甚嚣尘上。
Could the two other major trading powers, China and the European Union, collaborate to intensify their bilateral trade links so as to compensate for America’s isolationism?
中国和欧盟这两大贸易巨头是否会加强双边合作，以抵消美国的孤立主义？
A summit on July 24th in Beijing will show that the answer is emphatically"no".
7月24日在北京举行的峰会将给出一个斩钉截铁的答案："没戏"。
It was supposed to be a celebration of 50 years of diplomatic ties. Now it looks set to be a sputtering squib.
这场本该庆祝中欧建交50周年的盛会，如今恐怕会像哑火的爆竹般草草收场。
（注：译文采用口语化表达增强可读性，如"没戏"对应"emphatically no"；"哑火的爆竹"活用"sputtering squib"的比喻，保留原文幽默感；通过"巨头""草草收场"等词汇强化商业与政治语境的双关效果。）
