Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.
I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.
Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”
It’s more likely that AI will become a middle, or upper manager than a floor worker.
Humans are still very cheap to work with, especially if you gut worker protections
China is orders of magnitude more of a force for good than the US is.
China becoming hegemon would unironically be amazing for humanity
That’s basically every westerner passing judgement about China, so I’ll take it that his artistic message punched through
Broke nation sells out national security… more at 11
The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.
deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals
deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you're gonna have Cheez Whiz)
deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up
What Trump is doing makes a lot of sense. It's just standard iconoclasm.
Authoritarian regimes routinely destroy historical monuments to erase a past they oppose, promote their own ideology, and control national identity.
We can be as ideologically similar, policy-wise, we’re an obedient dog with a masochism kink.
“Yes daddy Trump, we’ll take all your child killer gas guzzlers and destroy our urban planning for more car friendly cities. What’s that? Yes sure we’ll also take a 15% tariff, and we’ll do it with a smile”
Meta returning to their roots it seems
It has a lot to do with the article, because of our superiority complex and literally EU politicians saying “we don’t need China, China needs us more than we need them”.
Dealing with China would’ve been a good counterbalance against being screwed over by the US tariff wise.
However, now we have to open up our markets to American cars and ractopamine pork from the US (yes, the deal also includes deregulating EU food safety standards).
Our gloating is literally destroying our standards of life
Yes, but the EU is currently a US vassal and surprisingly weak as a driver of any geopolitical decision.
I wish the EU would have closer relations with the PRC as a balance to being screwed over by the US