The United States will seek to force the European Union to choose between the US and China on trade, according to briefings circulated to senior ministers and officials after Tánaiste Simon Harris’s meeting in Washington last week with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick.
“Who are you gonna buy your products from? The people who already make all your products or me? Remember, I have none of the infrastructure to meet your demands! And if you don’t pick me, in gonna make my people spend more money by paying me for the right to buy your products!”
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