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SINGAPORE: Even for those who are no longer surprised when United States President Donald Trump goes against international norms, two developments in US-Europe ties in December should be alarming. The first was that five Europeans, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton, were hit by travel sanctions – banning them from US soil. Sanctions are usually reserved for American adversaries. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified this by their involvement in a “global censorship-industrial complex” to “suppress American viewpoints they oppose”. This was ostensibly in response to a US$141 million fine that the European Commission imposed on X for violations…
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