God knows China and the US were not bringing the consumer protections!

This reads like it's straight from the comment section of a Facebook post and is low quality even for HN's recent discussion culture.

.. and yet, internet memes get currency because they express something people feel and hadn't seen articulated, or at least so succinctly.

So why don't you address the underlying issue instead of denigrating the meme? If you have something to say about it, that is.

EU is first, with foolishly predictive tech regulation before it emerges. Like e.g. the requirement for AI to explain itself. GPT can surely explain to you very elaborately how they came to the wrong medical conclusion

But what you say is actually accurate, the globalized world (excepting russia) has settled to these roles for these 3 players. EU is more of a legacy player without an army (or strong production base) that still "upholds ideals" and sells this image for worldwide PR. But you see where this ends up, countries bribing EU politicians to improve their world PR by association.