| > This is what you need a union for. We have a union. So instead of a single country being blacklisted from trade or diplomatic relations due to criticizing China (e.g on human rights) it should just do so as a union. Actually, the union makes it harder to confront china because of the collective nature. It's like if a group of ten people going to the movies vs 10 individuals. The group has to compromise while individuals don't. There is a reason why china is so pro-EU. It's why china wants britain to stay in the EU. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/18... The EU can't confront china if it is going to hurt greece or one of its members. But norway can because it is free to act on its own interests. https://thediplomat.com/2016/01/sino-norwegian-relations-5-y... > China obviously can’t blacklist the EU. And obviously EU can't blacklist china either. > As it stands, no individual country dares do it. A few individual countries do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Ty... |
Sure, it's harder to reach a consensus, but it has more power than individual decisions.
Divide and conquer has been tried and tested, it rarely works as well as the "muh sovereignety" people think.