To be fair, up until 2022 and 2025 respectively, the common understanding was that EU/US and even EU/Russian relationships were beneficial for all parties involved.

Then both relationships were unnecessarily and unilaterally broken, and China profited from that.

People here like to dump on the EU, but I' argue that considering they were betrayed by two of their most important strategic partners within a span of four years, they're still holding up quite well.