plawolf
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Stark Defence, more like Hammer Defence with that performance. Thiel should be made to do the dance.
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Stark Defence, more like Hammer Defence with that performance. Thiel should be made to do the dance.
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World got a glimpse of real genocide; nobody will believe Xinjiang narrative now.I haven't heard Xinjiang "genocide and slave labour" for months or years now ... what happening?
Xinjiang is like Tibet sanctions, really just a distraction. Same with Lithuania-Taiwan antics, just a distraction.
EV tariffs are not unexpected, most countries impose high tariffs and expect locally made production of automobiles, which is the remaining high value manufacturing area in Europe asides from commercial planes.
The only major friction is Dutch towing the line of US export controls, and that mostly has to do with FDPR rule where US can cut off underlying tech. US basically controls their tech export policy.
Yes VDL yapps a lot about de-risking and balance, but she lacks formal power of a real President and can easily be bypassed to individual member states.
So overall, despite VDL yapping, EU isn't really that big of hostile player, that's why China still engages individual member countries to bypass VDL, and develop relationships with Germany and France directly, where the power truly resides.
And lastly, US has declared a trade war with EU, this is one of lifetime chance to take advantage of a blunder and collapse of US prestige. Divide and conquer requires deft surgical precision, not blunt wielding instruments.
That's fair, I too fell into the trap of simply wanting to fuck the EU just because of VDL, Germany and Netherlands, like you said China does have the clout and leverage to pick and choose which EU state it wants to engage with, so this is a golden opportunity to pull Spain and maybe Italy closer.
It's most likely greece, Serbia, Hungary, Iceland and to some extent Finland that would suceed.
I don't see Finland, they, like the baltics, are overtaken by their irrational hatred for the Russians than any sensible policy will be thrown out the window just to keep coping about being in the losing side of WW2
I'm sorry but I have to say what kind of cucked thinking is that? Keeping something that's yours and not handing it over to a robber is not retaliation at all.
Say you have some of your money sitting on a table and I grabbed it and declared that all your money belongs to me. Would you consider it all even between us because you got to keep the money in your wallet? Is not handing over the money in your wallet a proportional retaliation of me robbing you?
Why go to all this effort when you can buy off the shelf solutions from AliExpress. At least they can hit more than two targets.
I agree with your point on divide and rule. The problem is exactly what you said. EU is now run by pro-American libs like VDL, staunch protectionists drunk on excess welfare, and frontline states like Baltic three and Poland. Even in Germany, whilst the majourity could support AFD or Christian democrats, it is the pro-American but woke Green Party folks who have final says. In other words, the EU has ALREADY taken side with the US. And then there is ideology. Despite coming from a position of weakness, the EU still insists on spreading its values over others. So clearly the 大字报 message coming from Brussels to Beijing is “nope, we are not friends, and we have no desire to be buddies, AND stop exporting your superior but cheaper goods because our lazy arse workers don’t want to compete with yours.” So Beijing’s attempt to cozy up with the EU would likely be futile with some exceptions like Hungary and Slovakia. But these two countries are voiceless and are simply too dependent to its neighbours.