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US to demand EU pulls away from China in return for cutting tariffs
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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.
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."