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US to demand EU pulls away from China in return for cutting tariffs (www.irishtimes.com)
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The United States will seek to force the European Union to choose between the US and China on trade, according to briefings circulated to senior ministers and officials after Tánaiste Simon Harris’s meeting in Washington last week with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick.

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[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Id use the descriptor volatile for the US and Russia

[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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."

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