# Europe’s fatal Greenland mistake & China’s real power

An episode of [The Econoclasts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1685475850), 21 Jan 2026, 39 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/e/696facb925b879f328e123c3/media.mp3

In the week when President Donald Trump vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the terminal decline of European sovereignty and the shifting pillars of the global economy. Is Europe unable to confront Trump due to its total reliance on American technology and defence? And while the U.S. and China embrace disruptive economic models to maintain their dominance, why does the EU choose to preserve a failing status quo rather than pursuing the radical political union necessary for survival? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.