the most important news out of the e.u. ihmo is that their latest 15th sanctions package against russia included many sanctions against china (7 out of 84 sanctions were levied against chinese invidiuals and entities, with "fully-fledged listings" (ie, a travel ban, an asset freeze and a prohibition to make funds available))  (i suspect china put pressure on the eu to drop some sanctions against china, because the situation seemed more serious a week ago from the chinese reporting, they were making threats and probably the eu backed down from most if not all of the serious sanctions against china, which is good) they are using the ukraine war as a pretext to sanction china, ostensibly because these companies "do business" with russia meanwhile, us russia trade is high, so the us is trrying to use the e.u. as a battering ram to launch at china just like we are trying to do the same to russia
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