It has a lot to do with the article, because of our superiority complex and literally EU politicians saying “we don’t need China, China needs us more than we need them”.
Dealing with China would’ve been a good counterbalance against being screwed over by the US tariff wise.
However, now we have to open up our markets to American cars and ractopamine pork from the US (yes, the deal also includes deregulating EU food safety standards).
Our gloating is literally destroying our standards of life
We can be as ideologically similar, policy-wise, we’re an obedient dog with a masochism kink.
“Yes daddy Trump, we’ll take all your child killer gas guzzlers and destroy our urban planning for more car friendly cities. What’s that? Yes sure we’ll also take a 15% tariff, and we’ll do it with a smile”