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EU to deepen Asia trade to counter US, China ‘power-based’ policies (www.euractiv.com)
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[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maria Martin-Prat, deputy director-general at the Commission’s directorate-general for trade, reiterated the EU executive’s plan to finalise trade deals with India and Indonesia by the end of 2025.

She also noted that Brussels is “engaged very actively” to boost ties with a number of Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand

China and Russia are aligned, if they pull India to their side the west might feel serious consequences. Especially now the EU and the US are no longer allies. I'm glad EU is picking up the pace to make sure we will not become anybodies enemy. I feel we have enough of those.

[–] Anonymaus@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Don’t forget the Kremlin’s inside man—Trump—who’s doing all the work for them in terms off aligning india to russia/china

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess the EU is in favor of the US tariffs against India because of the Russian oil India is buying...

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 3 months ago

The EU sanctions aren't meant to prevent anyone from buying Russian oil at all, but rather to limit how much Russia can profit from selling it. If Russia could be magically prevented from selling any oil it'd make prices enormously higher for everyone across the world and functionally cut off the poorest countries from being able to buy any. Assuming you could get this to happen, it's rapidly going to turn most of the world against the EU and have far wider-reaching consequences than just hurting the Russian economy. The plan instead is to force Russia to sell their oil for cheaper than they want to and make it more expensive for Russia to actually move the oil, ideally resulting in Russian oil staying on the market but cutting the actual money made substantially. If India buys it cheap, that actually works fine.