The better question is how far the US will go to provoke a war with China, as they did in Ukraine. I wish you could have a debate with Brian Berletic of the New Atlas, because he has a slightly different perspective on who benefits from the war with China.
Wouldn't China's oil pipelines take years to build? Unless they started building them many years ago, I don't see them having anything like "energy reliability" any time soon.
You said it here; "China is far more vulnerable to trade disruptions and sanctions than Russia is."
China's economic rise has been predicated on it's arguably mercantilist export engine. Think of what a Western blockage/boycott would do to this? The engine would seize up almost immediately, and literally Billions of Chinese would be out of work. If China were more isolated, I could see war/invasion as a viable scenario... but for now, my simple view is that it would constitute shooting oneself in the foot.
The better question is how far the US will go to provoke a war with China, as they did in Ukraine. I wish you could have a debate with Brian Berletic of the New Atlas, because he has a slightly different perspective on who benefits from the war with China.
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Wouldn't China's oil pipelines take years to build? Unless they started building them many years ago, I don't see them having anything like "energy reliability" any time soon.
You said it here; "China is far more vulnerable to trade disruptions and sanctions than Russia is."
China's economic rise has been predicated on it's arguably mercantilist export engine. Think of what a Western blockage/boycott would do to this? The engine would seize up almost immediately, and literally Billions of Chinese would be out of work. If China were more isolated, I could see war/invasion as a viable scenario... but for now, my simple view is that it would constitute shooting oneself in the foot.