The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
While true, there is economy to the least awful option - by virtue of the USA making itself less reliable, they’ve increased China’s standing automatically, especially in the soft-power vacuum the US has left behind.
China is right to calculate this, even if they aren’t really anyone’s ally.
The idea is sound, China, but nobody fucking trusts you.
To be perfectly blunt, I don’t think the presentation of a united front is the issue. The wariness is from China wanting to fill the power vacuum left by the US, and many countries being extremely wary of hitching their wagons to an authoritarian superpower (which is what the US is turning into, and one of the primary reasons outside of the tariff idiocy that a lot of countries are stepping away from the US now). And the PRC is absolutely an authoritarian superpower.
Yes, the EU and other alliances in general, and individual states specifically, need to reestablish technical and financial independence, and keep it. International alliance can and should also be made, with the goal of always, always guarding sovereignty at home.
Best case scenario at this point is that both China and the US are successful in neutering each other’s foreign power.
A man can dream, right?
The E.U. should rule the world.
No… Other regions should have their own "E.U"s and all these should report up into one global collaborative assembly. To each their local governance and independence, under global coordination. It’s the only way.
Why does the world need to be “ruled”?
Power abhors a vacuum.
So let each country be powerful enough to rule themselves. I don’t see the net benefit of having a single global “ruler.”
No one ever said there’s a net benefit. It’s just what ends up happening one way or another. Achieving a perfect balance of power between every nation on the earth has never happened in history.
That’s not what “should” means.
Someone will take that mantle. Someone always does. And, that being the case, it should be the E.U.
I’d love to live in the fantasy world where every country just minded its own business and left each other alone and we all just frolicked in fields of daisies…
But go and try to explain how that needs to happen to Putin, Xi, and Trump and see how far you get.
