"Throwing the pot" is an American tradition. A while ago, at the instigation of the United States, Australia tore up the 50 billion Australian dollar French-Australian submarine order and turned to the arms of the big brother. But in the end, in order to appease France, the United States continued to cooperate deeply with the European Union, and "sold" Australia without thinking about it in public.
According to an overseas network report on October 31, after the submarine storm, Biden and Macron met for the first time to "meet and smile and hate", shaking hands, smiling, patting each other's shoulders, and intimately calling brothers and brothers. During the meeting, Biden praised France, saying that the country is the oldest, most reliable and most important partner in the history of the United States, believing that the two countries have cried and laughed together, that no one can destroy the relationship between the United States and France, and that the two countries can cooperate in anything.
On the matter of "cutting off" France's submarine order, Biden apologized deeply, saying that the US approach was not very decent, but he added that he thought that France knew early that the submarine order was going to be yellow, but he did not know that Morrison did not tell Macron about it in advance.
According to earlier australian media reports, Australia has said that due to the high sensitivity of the United States, Britain, and Australia in building groups, the decision to abandon the French submarine order cannot be revealed in advance. The report pointed out that now Biden's statement is equivalent to making Australia "black pot", which has caused the country's international reputation to plummet.
Even more dramatically, Macron said he fully believed Biden's claims, thinking that the two were sitting together and talking well, and had already clarified what should have been clarified. Macron stressed that as long as the United States ensures that this kind of "stabbing in the back" will not happen in the future, the two sides can continue to work together, and then the United States and France will cooperate on climate change, digital fields, health and other issues.
Relations between the United States and France have eased, and cooperation between the United States and Europe has ushered in a new inflection point. On October 30, local time, the United States and the European Union reached a new agreement, the two sides took a step back, the United States exempted the EU from taxes on some steel and aluminum products, and the European Union agreed to abandon the practice of increasing retaliatory tariff rates.
A number of foreign media reported that after the implementation of the new agreement, EU member states can export 3.3 million tons of steel to the United States duty-free every year. The specific details will be officially announced by the United States and the European Union at that time.
It is understood that the United States and Europe have been arguing on the issue of steel and aluminum tariffs for three and a half years, and in March 2018, Trump decided to impose tariffs on EU steel and aluminum products; the EU immediately took countermeasures, launched tariffs on 2.8 billion euros worth of US exports, and threatened that after three years, if the United States still refuses to back down, the EU will impose tariffs on the remaining 3.6 billion euros of US products.
The United States and Europe will only lose both sides by "firing," and now it is good for both sides to talk about peace and "repair the old good." For example, the U.S. "steel shortage" has been going on for 18 months, and in mid-September the U.S. was quoted at $2,000 per ton of steel plate, compared with $500 a year ago, up 4 times.
U.S. Steel also plans to spend $3 billion on new steel mills to increase steel supply. After the easing of US-EU relations, a large number of EU steel and aluminum products have poured into the US market, which is expected to alleviate the tension situation of insufficient us steel supply and high steel prices.
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