China has played the long game, and played it brilliantly.
The Mao years were all about China weaning themselves from all foreign influence. Yes, it cost millions of lives, but the mission was accomplished.
Once done, China could then open back up to the world, but this time, on their terms. And sure enough, Capitalists couldn’t resist the lure of cheap labor and cheap manufacturing costs, without worries about those pesky environmental regulations back home. Plus the lure of a market of a billion Chinese consumers.
The trap was set. Western countries leveraged their entire economies on China. And now the trap is getting ready to be slammed shut.
In the early 90s we joined Amway. By the mid 90s, they had finally broken through into the Asian market. After that, their main focus became China and they virtually abandoned their American members. The writing was on the wall and we quit in 1996.
The trap is closing, much the way the torturer cranked the wheel on the ‘iron lady’ to destroy the victim slowly and thus thoroughly. I am anticipating the Rapture at any moment, because the prophecies in the Revelation are balanced upon the actual state of the world right now, which balance will change dramatically if the evil one does not soon rise to power.
Trump showed how easily that balloon was burst.