Not according to the article, it presumably thinks the EU don't...

Not according to the article, it presumably thinks the EU don't qualify...

Who will not be joining is the European Union,” Zeihan states. “An EU-US free trade deal has been flirted with, but never really gone anywhere. EU countries like France are highly protectionist and the idea of exposing themselves to US market is something they are not willing to consider.”

Zeihan describes the EU as an aging society, so the US has no rationale for a trade deal with Europe because they would be product dumping on the US. Japan and Korea are also vital to US interests in Asia. “So there’s definitely an inner circle and an outer circle among the allies and when it comes to Greentech only the inner circle can play,” Ziehan concludes.