“By the way, how would France and the US do in producing cars without their huge imports of Chinese parts and materials?”
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Yes! I agree with you on one thing.
The West is indeed importing a lot from China because they can produce en mass for rather cheap.
However... What China produces is mostly only copies of western know-how and creativity. Anything China produces we do it as well and better. But it’s more expensive when we do it, because we pay our workers and engineers.
When it comes to Taiwan, they are actually dependent on EU (Holland) for their semiconductors production lines. Holland is the world’s number one in innovation and the very latest in ultra high-tech electronics. Russia has zero of it. And China, despite their international stealing efforts of others inventions... is far away from the truly best high-tech equipment the West is producing. That’s why they want to take Taiwan.
The new commie war will come from China. And I think they will not ask the backing of their ally Russia in order to that... because China want the whole taiwan-cake for themselves.
China wants a big slice of Siberia for themselves, as well.
Having Russia deplete their war stocks in Ukraine, and sell them oil at half the world price, suits China just fine.
You realize that Taiwan is a province of China and the US explicitly recognizes that fact? How do neocons expect the leader of China to react to Nancy Pelosi flying into that province unannounced while shipping billions in weapons and pledging full throated support for war? Probably about the same as Washington would react to the Chinese leadership if they flew into Texas under military escort and armed the state government to the teeth to “defend itself” against the Washington.