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[saubeidl]

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[kriops]

The EU isn’t a state and has no military or police. As such the EU’s existence is an anecdotal answer to your question in itself: Reliance on (in particular maritime) trade. And yes, China also benefits from trade, but as opposed to democracies (in which the general populace to a greater extent are keys to power) the state does not require trade to sustain itself in the same way.

This makes EU countries more reliable partners for cooperation than China. The same goes for the US from an European perspective, and even with everything going on over there it is still not remotely close.

All states are fundamentally adversaries because they have conflicting interests. To your point however, adversaries do indeed cooperate all the time.

[nagaiaida]

sorry, is your contention here "spurious accusations don't require evidence when aimed at designated state enemies"? because it feels uncharitably rude to infer that's what you meant to say here, but i struggle to parse this in a different way where you say something more reasonable.

[coliveira]

Competitor != adversary. It is US warmongering ideology that tries to equate these concepts.

[tomhow]

> It is US warmongering ideology that tries to equate these concepts

Please don't engage in political battle here, including singling out a country for this kind of criticism. No matter how right you are or feel you are, it inevitably leads to geopolitical flamewar, which has happened here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[delaminator]

you clearly haven't been paying attention

remember when the US bugged EU leader's phones, including Merkel from 2002 to 2013?

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