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Good Economics and History lessons L. P. ! Thank you for your analysis!

The question regarding the Chinese Economy will be how much of their economic collapse will spill over to the rest of the world? They use coal and hydro powered plants to generate electricity, but will it affect their ability to purchase oil needed to keep driving personal automobiles? They are apparently increasing their corn imports and about the same amount of Soybeans.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/275872/chinas-monthly-corn-imports/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/454101/chinas-monthly-soybean-imports/

If these decreased it would directly affect American Farmers, however I am not certain if the CCP can afford to let the people go hungry and risk a challenge. (Forward to the Village Canteen, comrades, the party will feed us in bad times! (Or not.))

Just a thought.

I do not expect any individual country to be hit very hard should the PRC utterly collapse.

There would be individual and corporate losses commensurate with their integration and investment level with China.

If anyone has investment exposure in ANY way with the PRC I recommend getting out NOW for anything you can salvage. This includes holding Apple and Tesla stock. If you work for a company with a large China exposure I would look into packing an economic parachute.

The CCP will do anything it has to to stay in power. If this means borrowing to import food, they will do it. If that means starving 100 million Chinese to death, they will do it. The only people who are guaranteed to eat are the party apparatchiks and the Army. The PLAN (navy) and PLAAF are maybes.

If the CCP goes to war, it is finished, win, lose, or draw. The only question will be: What is the death count?

Remember, the US doesn't have to actually fight the PRC to win the war. We need only cut off their trade and wait.

WWG1WGA

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