>>519513687
>if they offshore this critical asset why didn't they make sure they can get local or friendly production before seizing the office? are europeans retarded?
It's an edict from the US.
Dorito Hitler imposes sanctions on a whim against China, demands EU takes action (EU is a US project so they will ofc oblige) and the EU does.
Your very correct solution requires planning and at least a few years of actual preparation (including infrastructure investments like energy) before it can happen.
So in short, the demands came too fast and our leaders are too retarded to understand it (even if they were given enough time they would fail).
See pic rel for instance.
All the way back in 2008-ish Europe advertised that they wanted to decouple from Russian energy.
Later it became more explicitly an act of aggression, intended to cut power to Kaliningrad and causing energy shortages etc there.
Russia reacted and started expanding energy production, building more powerplants and transformer stations.
In 2025 the EU finally cut the power connectors to Russia... without having expanded energy production or invested in infrastructure to handle it.
Over night energy prices double in the Baltics while Kaliningrad see lower energy prices since they now export a little less.
This is the level of retardation we are talking about.
Ofc they would take over a Chinese chip company without considering the fact that all chip manufacturing was done in China and the offices they took over were just office workers doing marketing and maybe some R&D.