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  • Pringles@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, for the EU, China will have to open up its economy for open and fair competition, get rid of its IP sharing requirements and stop manipulating the Renminbi to keep it artificially low. Even then it should be quota based to stop them from dumping practices to take out local competitors.


  • Not expulsion, there is no mechanism for that. Voting right suspension and no cohesion funds are the maximum punishment possible under the EU constitution. That would require ratification by all other members though, so as long as there is one government (Slovakia being the most likely) blocking that, not much happens. That wouldn’t make the point moot to take those steps. Governments change and the groundwork can already be laid for it, or pressure piled on the blocking countries.











  • That’s not honest at all. European leaders may not always have liked how the Americans operated, but there always was a large amount of respect that stemmed from much more than just military might. The US has been a frontrunner humanitarian aid, soft diplomacy, scientific research and economic development since at least the end of WW2. Europe looked to the US to take the lead in global conflicts because the US always took the lead and would not have it otherwise.

    With the Trump 2.0 administration however, European leaders do look down on the US administration for their incompetence and severe lack of manners and decency.


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    Having no shame is actually a perfect tool against blackmail. Take for example the former Indonesian president Sukarno. Sukarno was delighted when the KGB told him they had a tape of him having an orgy with Russian flight attendants and asked if he could have some copies. The CIA also tried and failed to blackmail him with (fabricated) sex tapes.