Meanwhile, EU is flexing its economic muscles.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tear-down...083908077.html
Title: Tear down your barriers, EU says after summit with China's Xi
The gist of the article is that EU is making deals with China, and working hard to get China to change some of its behaviors.
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EU is coming into its own. It is asserting its independence from the US, and asserting its demands on what it wants from China. Obviously, China negotiates hard. So two big powers will be making deals that effect pretty much the whole world. And should the US completely implode, EU is saying we will be here.
EU is holding out a nice olive branch to China with promises of increased trade between the two countries. Linking up European countries to the Chinese silk road would be a big win for China as well as being economically beneficial to EU.
One deal beneficial to both parties already has been signed.
Slant has indicated that Brexit is pretty much behind them, with only details left to iron out and with UK almost becoming a country hostile to EU as per Dribbles and others. Dribbles has made it quite clear that he REALLY HATES EU and is quite happy when bad things happen to EU. And it seems like EU is moving forward as a very strong economic power.