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Looks like the US is the largest trading partner with China, how much leverage do you need? How long would it take a "unified bloc" to agree on doing anything?
Looks like the US is the largest trading partner with China, how much leverage do you need? How long would it take a "unified bloc" to agree on doing anything?
EU is China's biggest trading partner and China is now the EU's second-biggest trading partner behind the United States
Europe's total trade is 696.3 billion (with 403.2 billion exported); however, subtracting out JUST the UK's 78.5 billion brings this down to 617.8 billion and 343.6 exported. Remove Russia and you're at 549.8 and 308.8 exported.
The US is 557 billion total with 409.2 exported. The US is China's biggest trading partner.
Let's not even get started on the fact that the US is the major buyer of Chinese goods - nobody buys more. The US imports more dollars worth of goods than any other region except Asia.
This is why most of the time the US does things unilaterally. Whether its militarily, economically or otherwise. We ask other countries if they want to stop China from laying huge tariffs on their products and they say, "Yes, for sure!" Then we say, "Okay, let's all impose tariffs on their imports and fight back!" and suddenly all those countries who were on board to do something suddenly get cold feet and don't want to get sucked into a trade war or deal with the short term consequences of standing up to them.
Also, these trade wars with China have been off and on since the 1970's if not earlier.
You're obviously confusing between the trade wars with Japan and the trade wars with China.
Seems like this is asking for a citation. That kind of rhetoric works for all purposes (surely EU trade negotiators have been similarly annoyed by US inaction on other issues, for example). If you have something specific to complain about, this is the place to do it.
Further, the US keeps one foot out of international tools like the WTO or the UN law of the sea, neutering the very mechanisms with which the rest of the world could coordinate action.