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US to demand EU pulls away from China in return for cutting tariffs
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I see no possibility that the EU will, if forced to choose, choose anyone other than China.
Russia and the US have both clearly signaled to the EU that they cannot be trusted. I see no reason why the EU would do anything other than believe them.
China likewise has shown itself to be equally as untrustworthy. It openly supports Russia during it's invasion of Ukraine for starters, even the US is pretending to barely support Ukraine.
The EU should not bog itself down with the three tyrants.
Right, but China is untrustworthy in a standard international wheeling and dealing sense, while Russia and the US are both direct, existential threats to the EU and its constituent nations.
Yes - they'd be best off avoiding entanglements with all three, but their very survival might depend on allying with China against an overtly hostile Russia and US.
Trump: dump china if you want to be my friend
EU: no thanks
China: Finally, I've wanted to be friends for so long
EU: no thanks
That would certainly be a good way to play it.
But really- the EU doesn't want to alienate China too much, because the time could easily come when having China at their back is the only thing that saves them from being spit-roasted by a US/Russia alliance.
Totally, then shouldn't be rude about it but it looks like to me they want to keep some safe distance from both the coming years. Maybe pull a Switzerland if it actually comes to ww3, but let's hope not.
It's a sad world where you always have to consider your actions to not escalate toward a new world war. Things went from okay to bad really quick.
Id use the descriptor volatile for the US and Russia
I guess, in the same sense that ones relationship with two hungry-looking men with their hands wrapped around suspicious bulges in their pockets, advancing on you from opposite ends of a dark alley and already arguing over who gets to keep your watch might be considered "volatile."