>At the June Council summit, French, German and Italian leaders wanted EU leaders to jointly call on the European Commission to examine “ways to screen investments from third countries.” >The protectionist language appeared in early drafts but did not make it into the summit’s final conclusions — to the chagrin of France, Germany and Italy, which are used to getting their way when they call for something jointly. >The effort was derailed by an ad hoc coalition of smaller countries that included traditional champions of free trade like Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands. They were backed by Portugal, Greece, Malta and the Czech Republic, all of which have received high levels of Chinese investment
>In June this year, Greece blocked an EU statement at the United Nations criticizing China’s human rights record >Last March, Hungary derailed the EU’s consensus to sign a joint letter denouncing the reported torture of detained lawyers in China. >And in July 2015, Greece, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia fought hard in Brussels to avoid a direct reference to Beijing in an EU statement about a court ruling that struck down China’s legal claims over the South China Sea.
>In the wake of the June Council summit, Germany has pointed to Portugal specifically as an example of an EU country that is blocking EU legislation that Beijing opposes >In July, the two countries signed a memorandum stressing Portugal’s willingness to participate in the “One Belt One Road” initiative, a program designed to increase Chinese exports to the EU, and China’s aviation group HNA announced direct flights between Beijing and Lisbon. Chinese state media rhapsodized that bilateral relations with Lisbon were the “best in history.”
>Greece >Hungary >Portugal >Czechia Is any of this the least bit surprising?
Those are all countries that subhuman krautniggers and frogniggers have been greatly mistreating in recent years. At this point, it's quite simply self-preservation for them to look for other alternatives, especially in the case of Greece, the independence of which the EU is currently viciously trying to destroy.
Brayden Reyes
>big EU countries that used the union to boost their economies at the cost of everyone elses and being condescending bullies during times of global crises are outraged when the smaller states get fed up and turn towards China Whoa who would've expected this turn of events.
Kayden Brooks
you have to go back
Brayden Ortiz
pretty much this EUniggers pretty much forced Portugal to privatize lots of stuff and then got butthurt when we sold it to China when they gave the most money instead of selling it to them for pennies
China is well on it's way to become our biggest investor, they're retarded if they think we will ever let them fuck that relationship up
Luis Sanchez
I hope you enjoy Hans' dick way up inside your asshole
Cooper Williams
Better hans, than non-european one, for sure. But we will not enjoy any of those. also, traitors will hang
Owen Gray
I think you're struggling to understand the scope of what both "sides" imply.
To take Greece as an example: >agreeing that China should be allowed to annex some faraway piece of water that doesn't affect Greece in any tangible way whatsoever versus >literally allowing the EU to rule your country for you
The two don't even compare, the former is clearly a much better choice.
>can't even develop an original look >have to simply copy US uniforms At least when they had the green suits and hats with red stars, it was unique.
Cameron Wood
Speaking of AESTHETIC
Jayden Collins
Money is temporary,ephemeral.Any investment made in a country thousands of miles away from you is risky.The portuguese government can just force themselves into any company in their country and expel any foreign investment in a given company. What could the chinese do about it?Cry to the international court of justice?Invade us? haha
Isaiah Campbell
it looks nothing like US uniforms
Michael Collins
Yes. I for one welcome our Chinese overlords.
Cooper Sanchez
They're poor shithole countries. A homeless man will suck an AIDS-infected dick for change if he has to.
Jayden Butler
very nice
Jack Price
Hi Rodriguez. You have to go back as well.
Angel Sanchez
china will collapse
Logan Diaz
The USA has the highest AID prelavence of those countries. Only Russia rivals us.
Mason Roberts
They have a civil war every 90 or so years. It'll come around again soon.
Some of my compatriots think one man’s gain is another’s loss.
Asher Mitchell
because resources are zero-sum
Dominic Long
But efficiency gains are not.
You think we’d have solar panel prices down 95% since 2005 without China?
Angel Morris
>can't we all be prosperous together? We can't, because of ideology. Simple material jealousy is enough to spawn violence, but ideology spawns systems of abuse that have longer and deeper negative impact than sudden burts of violence.
Evan Brooks
not right now they aren't and not for the foreseeable future. population adjusts to the environment. when resources become too expensive to extract or recycle the population will naturally slow or shrink.
if you are worried about the end of resources then you should just genocide everyone that is not an American right now and stake your claim to the planet. oh shit, but then eventually you'll have to start killing yourself too once your population grows too large..
Lincoln Cruz
>he fell for the solar power meme
Brody Baker
Americans consume 600 times the resources an Ethiopian does.
Parker Watson
fine, it's war then Finland. the arctic is ours!
Gabriel Morales
>We can't, because of ideology. No we can't because not enough resources.
yeah we know you guys are fat fucks, what about it? the world still has some shit undiscovered we can extract from and there's plenty of unused land on the planet still.
Cooper Thompson
>the arctic is ours! Nyet
Brayden Rodriguez
go away russia, you already have siberia. go get alaska back and we can be BFF's.
Dominic Wilson
Just go back you chink
Jack Reed
No we can't because there are too many people*
You can't spawn resources just like that, but you can always manage the amount of humans
Austin Powell
So how do Europeans actually feel about the EU? Good? Bad?
Henry Scott
China is mostly a cardboard prop held together with fake CCP stats, but I've already said everything I have to say on this in previous threads so you're welcome to go in the Foolz archive and read them rather than repeat the posts again.
