Frankly I’d like less clickbait and more info on the tools that are being discussed
> In the years ahead, the EU hopes to have a gun to put on the negotiating table when the bloc is being blackmailed by trade rivals. The upcoming “anti-coercion instrument” is being designed to allow Brussels to retaliate in precisely these kinds of cases.
I have posted the commission note on it multiple times in the context of Lithuania-China trade situation but I have no idea what it includes and which kind of powers would states give up to the union.
I mean, how good of a bluff is it if everyone knows its a bluff?
Why don’t the EU states or a large part of them just threaten to do exactly the same thing as Lithuania did if the Chinese government doesn’t back down from these sanctions they’ve imposed on the country?
It’s mostly cosmetic anyway, isn’t it? Many EU countries already communicate with Taiwan independently from China.
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Frankly I’d like less clickbait and more info on the tools that are being discussed
> In the years ahead, the EU hopes to have a gun to put on the negotiating table when the bloc is being blackmailed by trade rivals. The upcoming “anti-coercion instrument” is being designed to allow Brussels to retaliate in precisely these kinds of cases.
I have posted the commission note on it multiple times in the context of Lithuania-China trade situation but I have no idea what it includes and which kind of powers would states give up to the union.
I mean, how good of a bluff is it if everyone knows its a bluff?
Why don’t the EU states or a large part of them just threaten to do exactly the same thing as Lithuania did if the Chinese government doesn’t back down from these sanctions they’ve imposed on the country?
It’s mostly cosmetic anyway, isn’t it? Many EU countries already communicate with Taiwan independently from China.
We will show them our masseter muscle!