Comment on China Holds a Kill Switch to European Power Grids
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks agoI respectfully disagree. It’s not that I say the EU should stop trading with China, but the bloc needs to re(!)-develop an own industry to gain a high level of independence. Europe already had a thriving renewable energy industry in the 2000s (and it decisively helped finance China’s industry). But I agree with your first statements about no remote storage and enforcing EU legal jurisdictions.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You don’t need to subsidize EU industry at the taxpayers expense to achieve economic independence. Refusing cheaper goods for arbitrary reasons just makes EU look stupid.
Look at France. Their whole country is built on sovereign independence in critical areas. They achieved it buy building their own industry, while taking take goods deals from other countries, not by refusing them and making their own people lives harder.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
In this context we must consider also forced labour in China. We need also transparent supply chains, which is exactly what the Chinese government rejects. Any trade agreement without human rights clauses is useless imo.