The West wants to believe in the most stupidest things just to feel like they're superior. Chinese need their European luxuries therefore Beijing won't touch it. That's what other articles are saying despite how Cognac, which falls into that category, has already been molested. What I hate typically about Beijing is they have to preface things like saying negotiations are still ongoing. Typically Chinese always leaving a opening to give the antagonist a way out. They can do that without saying it. But as usual the Chinese want to come across as reasonable. It's like they want to make history see them as the civilized one by putting it on record. None of that means anything except for that. It doesn't help with dealing with the West who doesn't care about those things themselves which is why they take their anti-China actions. They have to look like they're going to do what they're threatening or it makes them look weak. Now they're threatening full blown trade war. I hope they do it so China closes the door on them completely. If they don't need China, why are European luxuries which are not necessities in life such a third rail to them to then threaten full blown trade war?
Remember the good ole days when the West whined that China doesn't buy anything from anyone in order to claim that China doesn't trade fairly? That's their lie or they wouldn't be whining about how China isn't buying their crap. It's that important to them. They're already banning advance technology to China but they're still willing and dependent on selling the things by their own definition of the terms China can get anywhere else. Like agricultural goods. Something so simple yet so important. When you have 1.4 billion mouths to feed, the profits you can make from it can be like selling advanced technology to China hence why it's so important to the West. They'll ban what China wants to buy but are willing to sell what China can get from some place else. That's why they have no leverage.
Gina Raimondo says there's no negotiation but there is at the cost of China volunteering to be the West's slaves. They just can't say that out loud. That's what they want because they want to make the money from selling advance technology to China. The US wants to be able to sell F-35s to China but the West needs absolute control on how China uses them like bombing the countries the US doesn't like so they don't get vilified for it. Remember, they think it's all right to torture people if they can get someone else to do it for them. It's just in order for that to be possible, China has to surrender to the West and they get to dictate everything what China can and cannot do. Essentially be a slave.
Europe thinks they have leverage when Beijing wants to come across being open to negotiation. To the West that's weakness. If they do it, they think they look weak. If China does that, they think they have leverage. The reality is they're the ones whining about trade when they threaten to decouple with China. They're the ones showing their cards. Chinese culturally think showing their emotions on their sleeves is suppose to garner sympathy, therefore that's how they get what they want. That's why Beijing mistakenly thinks telling everyone how this or that will hurt Chinese people's feelings will make others sympathize with China. All it does is make Chinese look like fragile children. If the West is not going to sell technology China doesn't have, China doesn't have to buy what they're willing to sell because China can get it from somewhere else. No need to play kumbaya to people who want absolute control over everything and not true world peace.
