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> what's the point of a contract that's not enforceable? That's why the USA didn't bother ordering rapidely. They knew they could use the defense act and execu
by brmgb 6y ago
> what's the point of a contract that's not enforceable?
That's why the USA didn't bother ordering rapidely. They knew they could use the defense act and executive orders to block exports and they did as soon as they could. Even Canada is buying vaccines in Belgium.
The UK was wise. They prevented Oxford associating with Merks and forced them to partner with AstraZeneca. That's the key take away from the pfizer debacle and the Nordstream interferences. Europe needs to strike American companies hard and push them out of the European market as fast as possible. The USA is not our ally.
- logotype 6y agoThat’s absurd. On the contrary, we should work closer with our ally USA, increase trade and more cooperation. We should completely decouple from China and stop trade from there, and restart domestic manufacturing.
- turbinerneiter 6y agoTo do that, we would need to trust the USA to have our shared best interest in mind. I don't have that. The EU is notoriously bad in protecting their self-interest, the US is notoriously good at that. I want to the EU to be a close ally to the US, but it is not the EU who is the problem here.
- astrange 6y agoDoesn't Germany have a lot of manufacturing? I thought it was what they were known for. China's final assembly companies are not the only kind of manufacturing and not the most worthwhile part of it, although Shenzhen is certainly good at electronics.