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[New York Post] The EU-China Deal Betrays America — And Europe’s Own Values
The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) is a sellout's deal on its own terms.
The EU’s pretext for condoning China’s lawlessness the past four years was feeling sidelined by Trump’s go-it-alone economic statecraft. Its stated hope that Beijing would be better squared up to multilaterally — without pugilistic trade feuds and burden-sharing squabbles — now bears the stain of the willful impostor. Last week, a mere fortnight before Biden takes office, the bloc wound up the year of Covid-19, Hong-Kong’s muzzling and mass Uyghur enslavement with a double-whammy to the West. The deceptively titled Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) it signed with China is at once a slap in the face for the transatlantic alliance and a hazardous rapprochement to its main foe at the worst possible time.
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