In China Things Head South Quickly

Bkmk

Look at the sky in the picture associated with this article.

That is not an overcast day. It is air-pollution. That’s a normal day. The sky is not blue in Chinese cities.

How many people know that prior to 1949 China was a friendly country? Chiang Kai-shek was far from perfect (he was fanatically pro-moslem and anti-Israel for one thing), but he wasn't destabilizing Asia.

Thanks again, liberals.

Don’t think anyone cares much about gp and gm enjoying their senior years not can gp and gm afford it. No cruise ships.

Just posing a thought for consideration, is a blue water navy really essential for China now as it has been for the US?

The trade routes within the island chain outboard of China can be controlled by relatively short range land based missiles never having to put a fleet or aircraft carrier in harms way. The Chicom trade fleet could be obliterated in that way just as submarines did the same to the Japanese trade fleet.

The Chicoms can project outward of their bathtub in a similar way but only so far as the outer islands from Japan all the way to Indonesia. Some land bases may be needed to expand but Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia are land battles, not easy but require no navy.

There is no need to project into the vastness of the Pacific, it is only water after all, nothing to take. What they need and want are resources; those are available without spanning the Pacific.

It is even much easier to go to war to the west, with the Stans and Russia than it is to go east.

As for taking or conquering the US, why?

As for taking or conquering the US, why?

If you believe the common wisdom on FR, the most vaxxed group in the world, aka the US Military, will be reduced to a shell force by disease, debilitation, and death.

So the ChiComs can just roll up to the US Capitol and ask for the keys....

Clearing Tiananmen Square of 50 million complaining grandpas and grandpas, who are the Mandarin kin of the ChiComm rulers, will be an impossible task.

The ChiComm subsidized cruise fleet will be built. Tickets will cost 10 renminbi, equivalent to $1.47. All-you-can-eat Peking duck buffets included. At 7pm sharp. Entertainment by Japanese Elvis impersonators. 9pm to midnight.

They have many ghost cities. Near empty poorly constructed buildings.

50 million is rounding error. Not a problem.

China Imports from United States was US$180.97 Billion during 2021, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade.

China Imports from United States	Value	Year
Electrical, electronic equipment	$22.50B	2021
Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products	$21.40B	2021
Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers	$19.56B	2021
Oil seed, oleagic fruits, grain, seed, fruits	$17.83B	2021
Vehicles other than railway, tramway	$13.84B	2021
Optical, photo, technical, medical apparatus	$13.27B	2021
Cereals	$8.57B	2021
Plastics	$7.40B	2021
Pharmaceutical products	$7.04B	2021
Miscellaneous chemical products	$4.49B	2021
Organic chemicals	$4.15B	2021
Meat and edible meat offal	$4.11B	2021
Aircraft, spacecraft	$3.06B	2021
Essential oils, perfumes, cosmetics, toileteries	$2.52B	2021
Ores slag and ash	$2.31B	2021
Copper	$2.17B	2021
Wood and articles of wood, wood charcoal	$1.97B	2021
Pulp of wood, fibrous cellulosic material, waste	$1.68B	2021
Cotton	$1.60B	2021
Articles of iron or steel	$1.10B	2021
Inorganic chemicals, precious metal compound, isotope	$1.09B	2021
Pearls, precious stones, metals, coins	$1.08B	2021
Edible fruits, nuts, peel of citrus fruit, melons	$1.02B	2021
Soaps, lubricants, waxes, candles, modelling pastes	$1.01B	2021
Miscellaneous edible preparations	$1.00B	2021
Glass and glassware	$980.07M	2021
Fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatics invertebrates	$975.16M	2021
Paper and paperboard, articles of pulp, paper and board	$800.23M	2021
Rubbers	$725.32M	2021
Residues, wastes of food industry, animal fodder	$718.19M	2021
Commodities not specified according to kind	$717.62M	2021
Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather	$702.20M	2021
Printed books, newspapers, pictures	$680.56M	2021
Salt, sulphur, earth, stone, plaster, lime and cement	$615.08M	2021
Photographic or cinematographic goods	$594.51M	2021
Albuminoids, modified starches, glues, enzymes	$561.12M	2021
Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques	$534.13M	2021
Dairy products, eggs, honey, edible products	$485.26M	2021
Tanning, dyeing extracts, tannins, derivatives, pigments	$437.08M	2021
Beverages, spirits and vinegar	$426.96M	2021
Nickel	$419.66M	2021
Aluminum	$410.45M	2021
Products of animal origin	$343.69M	2021
Vegetable, fruit, nut food preparations	$336.70M	2021
Base metals not specified elsewhere, cermets.	$322.16M	2021
Iron and steel	$304.24M	2021
Stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials	$296.49M	2021
Ceramic products	$247.06M	2021
Tools, implements, cutlery of base metal	$234.88M	2021
Wadding, felt, nonwovens, yarns, twine, cordage	$203.49M	2021
Miscellaneous articles of base metal	$182.69M	2021
Furniture, lighting signs, prefabricated buildings	$181.83M	2021
Tobacco and manufactures tobacco substitutes	$181.21M	2021
Sugars and sugar confectionery	$139.93M	2021
Animal, vegetable fats and oils, cleavage products	$133.05M	2021
Toys, games, sports requisites	$132.18M	2021
Footwear, gaiters and the like,	$107.75M	2021
Manmade filaments	$106.54M	2021
Miscellanneous manufactured articles	$100.11M	2021
Manmade staple fibers	$89.78M	2021
Impregnated, coated or laminated textile fabric	$85.61M	2021
Cereal, flour, starch, milk preparations and products	$79.52M	2021
Articles of leather, animal gut, harness, travel good	$58.65M	2021
Cocoa and cocoa preparations	$47.88M	2021
Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers	$47.76M	2021
Live animals	$46.75M	2021
Railway, tramway locomotives, rolling stock, equipment	$45.18M	2021
Musical instruments, parts and accessories	$34.59M	2021

The map below shows for an earlier year, I think 2021, visualizing China's biggest import partners.

As you can see, while the USA is behind China's neighbors like South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, it is a pretty decent showing

You are right that if China stopped importing from the USA, then that would have minimal direct impact on the USA's exports

Just so long as the Chinese are still pumping out cheap stuff for the Dollar Tree store. Like $1.25 eyeglasses and cheap thin socks that work great for my athletic shoes.

Trade Deficit with your Chicom lovers:

U.S. goods and services trade with China totaled an estimated $615.2 billion in 2020. Exports were $164.9 billion; imports were $450.4 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China was $285.5 billion in 2020. China is currently our largest goods trading partner with $559.2 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2020.

Before the USA finally started to fight back ( Pre Trump ), the ChiComs imposed a 7.5% tariff on US import. The USA had around 3%. Now both USA and China impose a higher tariff on each others imports. China's is 21% and te USA's is 19%.

US-China Trade War Tariffs: An Up-to-Date Chart