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Well well well. The US and EU have mutually decided to drop punitive tariffs - temporarily - in order to negotiate a more permanent solution. ...

It's all part of the narrative they tell themselves. "Covid isn't really that bad anyway, this is all too much" easily segues into "well, I don't...

He was right here, insisting on calling it the Chinese Disease.

This is how you end up with 46% of teachers wanting a vaccine. Plus the newest GOP message is Covid no longer exists (or at least isn't worth...

Is it too cynical to joke that at least this will help demographically for upcoming elections? It's mind boggling how the same people who are most...

The EU was pursing a comprehensive trade deal with the US until the US pulled the plug. It was Trump's decision to terminate the trade talks.

Jeez this is worse than I thought. Though an extremely long interval of dates.

Lewk, where were you when Trump et al. kept equating Covid with Asians? When people were warning the Trump administration that this would lead to...

I don't know whether this is just your reading difficulties again or if there's some other reason why you think that the EU not pursuing a...

r3hTwsvJV_A Remind me when the EU pulled the plug on the TTIP? :haha:

I was expecting the US to reverse Trump's targeted tariffs against the UK; it's an extremely small thing that requires no strength at all, it's...

The power dynamic is the UK is now operating as a major independent economy, freed from the shackles of having to negotiate as one of 28. Minor...

Remember my story about my friend and the surgeon, o illiterate and ignorant one :) it's interesting that you object so strongly to being reminded of...

You keep using the absurd term "bare its throat" as if the UK being able to be nimble and agile to get what it wanted outside the EU was a weakness...

What I'm saying is that this isn't a "deal" so much as it is a minor negotiation move. Because of leaving the EU, the UK has had to bare its throat...

So what you're saying is that by the UK being independent, the UK has been able to unilaterally drop its tariffs and get the US to drop its in...

You are still in a dispute :confused: this is a temporary (4 months) suspension of retaliatory tariffs as a show of goodwill in response to the UK...

Who knows, maybe in the future Brexit will start benefitting the UK and they can start to try to make back what they've lost in the last 4 years and...

The point of leaving was to screw up your economy today in order to have unrealistic dreams about your future? You lot don't even stick to your word...

You think that proves "if it was white on Asian violence the media would fall all over themselves to immediately assume racism"? Well, you're not...

That was kind of a point of leaving, yes. The benefits for leaving are coming true while you're still rambling on about your Parliament as if anyone...

I see you filled up on tomorrow's jam?

Those conspiracy theories have been encouraged by politicians and media in Europe from Macron to Handelsblatt. A myth has been adopted by many...

I am frequently shocked at how ostensibly intelligent people have trouble understanding vaccinations. I recently heard from a relative who was...

https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/13991204000677/New-Yrk-Aciviss-Respnd-Bral-Aack-n-Asian-Man-by-Rallying-Agains-Whie Yeah man, even when a black...

Yeah - China is literally the Evil Empire of our day.

...bamboo curtain...

They were punitive tariffs levied in a dispute with the EU which are now being removed. Has he removed the tariffs on the EU as well at the same time...

Wow that's impressive it must have been difficult to persuade Biden to reverse one of Trump's temper-tantrum orders *slow clap*

Hong Kong turning into East Germany? Reports that residents of Hong Kong will be forbidden from emigrating by August. A new iron curtain. RIP...