[LonePalm]

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

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[grey_whiskers]

Can we starve them out before they starve Taiwan out? ...and they wouldn’t have to starve Taiwan all the way, just squeeze hard enough to get them to surrender/unify.

[FormerFRLurker]

I second that idea. Sell your Apple and Tesla stocks while you still can and invest in gold, which will always be in demand regardless of labor or currency markets. I’m also looking into bitcoin, but haven’t made a decision yet.