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Exactly. When the going gets rough, the US is just as willing as any other authoritarian state to sacrifice all justice, friendship, goodwill and fairplay to se
by klingonopera 7y ago
Exactly. When the going gets rough, the US is just as willing as any other authoritarian state to sacrifice all justice, friendship, goodwill and fairplay to secure their profits.
Why should the EU follow the US into their dirty game? The first 70 years after war, the US at least tried to keep the illusion of being decent. Now everything's an all-out free-for-all, and EU should be looking after themselves than the interests of somebody else.
- trickstra 7y agoUS is also threatening to stop business with whoever doesn't ban Huawei, so that's why
- emn13 7y agoWithout trying to imply some kind of opinion as to Huawei or Trump here: I don't think that's a serious threat. It's one thing to make a lot of tough-looking noise as a matter of protectionism to curry favor with voters thus protected - it's quite another to actually hurt those same voter's economic interest fairly quickly without clear, short-term benefit. In other words: protection classical industry makes some sense politically (whether or not it's a good idea), setting off a real trade war with your allies when you're also in a trade war with china makes no sense at all. Also, I doubt Trump needs to. He's quite capable of harassing Huawei without much foreign support. Why risk a recession - and thus reelection - if you don't have too?