Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni is in Washington meeting with US President, Donald Trump. Hang on, is Meloni representing the EU here, or advancing Italy alone, or even her own agenda? It appears to be a lot of the latter, and less of the former.
All trade deals must go through Brussels. There's no flexibility on the issue, so perhaps Donald Trump is trying to divide and conquer.
Privately, I've been joking that Europe in six months time will have convinced itself that China is wrong, and the US is right. They'll go back to their abuser, all the while saying it will be different this time, they really do love us.
Meanwhile, in Asia they can see this play out and they'll be grouping together, they'll just deal with one another and cut off links with the US. It'll be interesting to see what Japan and South Korea do, but I feel fairly certain that the ASEAN countries will 'choose' China. They have to deal with China day-to-day on all sorts of issues, I cannot see them siding with the US or Europe.
Putin must be laughing his tits off about now.
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