[bk1000]

If they did that, who would buy all the crap they make?
Would they shoot themselves in the foot like that?
Perhaps they feel the BRICS will hold them up. I don’t see it.

[marktwain]

If they did that, who would buy all the crap they make?

Would they shoot themselves in the foot like that?

When did the Chinese Communist Party act rationally in the best interest of the Chinese people?

They are concerned with power, and only power.

Their ideology says there can only be on predominant world power, and they aim to be it.

President Trump has shown them the USA is not necessarily on a permanent decline.