US to demand EU pulls away from China in return for cutting tariffs
US to demand EU pulls away from China in return for cutting tariffs
Confidential briefing documents identify what US may seek in talks and point to early move on pharma tariffs
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.
Inb4 trump announces tarrifs on goods exported from China to the EU
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.
I'd rather have China. At least we know with them where we're at and we don't trust them, nor haven't we for a long time. The US seemed trustworthy, but now they are showing their true colors. Europe needs to diversify. Trade with China, India, and Africa.
Fuck the US, EU should open up opportunities with China and invest in Brazil and India
Yeah no, eat a bag of bricks you entitled losers.
The US can go and fuck themselves.
Stick with the people who already have all the manufacturing capacity or switch the oligarchic hegemony supposedly “worlds most advanced “ economy that can’t produce anything.
As annoying as the executive leading the us is its not to bad to have a reason to limit chinas influence on the EU. plenty of other countries to trade with besides the us and china and russia and north korea for that matter.