[bert]

To exist, China needs customers.

The world is China’s customer and Russia is trivial by comparison

China will finesse Russia

[hcmama]

Well, that has always been one of the shibboleths idealists cling to in foreign policy. "Economic ties uber alles."

Time will tell.

[hcmama]

Good thing the Chinese can't subject the US to any economic blackmail in the form of holding trillions of dollars of US debt!

Whew. Glad we didn't make that mistake!

[Boogieman]

China also needs imports to keep up its manufacturing, and all of its key import trading partners are in the West as well. China knows very well that to war on the West is to commit economic suicide.