China is the industrial colossus of the world, as you can see by visiting Walmart.
“China is the industrial colossus of the world, as you can see by visiting Walmart.”
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Until they start up with Taiwan and get sanctioned like Russia is now - then they will become an ex-collossus in a few months.
That, or until India or Australia or Japan , or any nation with 2 destroyers, gets sufficiently ticked off at them to threaten to sink China-bound supertankers in the Indian Ocean or any of the straits that those tankers must pass through on their very long journey to China. They import 80% of their oil, and about 80% of that originates in the Persian Gulf. China’s prosperity is dependent upon the system that this country built after WW2, in which we enforced trade routes and encouraged massive specialization that would otherwise have been impossible. Once we withdraw a bit from the world, let alone actively deny its use to China, that system - and China’s prosperity - will cease to exist.