European shares dragged by trade rhetoric

(Reuters) - European shares dropped on Friday after three days of gains, as Beijing ratcheted up its war of words with Washington over trade, weighing on risk appetite.The pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.6% by 0844 GMT, though it was still looking at its best weekly performance since in 1-1/2 months. The Chinese Communist Party's People's Daily used a front page commentary to say the trade war would never bring the country down, after telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd..