Europe and Asia Move to Bolster Global Systems That Trump Has Attacked

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Source: NY Times

BRUSSELS — From trade to regulation to security, America’s traditional allies are accelerating their efforts to buttress a global system that President Trump has seemed prepared to tear down.
After months of stunned indecision, they have undertaken a flurry of efforts intended to preserve the rules-based order the United States created after World War II and championed ever since.

The most obvious example came on Monday, the same day a stunned world watched Mr. Trump praise President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia as a competitor after having dismissed Europe as an economic “foe.” A few thousand miles away, in Beijing, the leaders of the European Union and China held a long-scheduled meeting of their own.

In the past, expectations for such meetings were low, given the conflicts on trade and human rights between the Europeans and the Chinese. But while those differences remain, this summit meeting produced an unusual joint declaration and a common commitment to keep the global system strong.

The next day, the Europeans traveled to Japan and signed the biggest free-trade agreement in history, just the sort of deal the Trump administration has criticized.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-eu-china-japan-trade.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld

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The world moves forward as Trump moves backward.

[sandensea]

1. And mostly importantly, revert to paper ballots.

As most European countries which have tried black box voting - such as Germany and the Netherlands - have already done for precisely that reason:

It's too easy to hack, and too difficult to detect if votes were flipped.

[Chickensoup]

2. The biggest loser.

When our country is the biggest economy and the top of the pack. The undisputed
world power. If every country in the world
were competing in a marathon we are
way ahead of the rest. So can you tell
me why destroy the system that put
you on top and suffer from a self inflicted disaster because we allowed an idiot to run
unbridled .

[2naSalit]

3. Because that idiot

is, in fact, pootin's Trojan Horse... just as most of us suspected.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The World had sensed the danger of Putin/Trump, but now that it is so obvious they have bolted

into action.

Beyond sad to see America as the enemy of the world but that is now true.

[RandomAccess]

5. The world moves forward . . . without us.