No, because China has a uniquely vulnerable strategic position. It similar to what Germany faced in WW1
While China cannot easily be invaded, it is easy to cut off from strategic imports like oil. China is very difficult to access going West to East. So China is very depended on sea borne trade.
Look at a map. Geography and alliances give the US Navy and Airforce an unbreakable choke hold on Chinese sea trade any time they want to apply it
If the Red Chinese were going to militarily attack, they would have done it before Trump took office.
The Red Chinese might be planning on nationalizing foreign operations in China because of the attempted takeover of TikTok.
Whadda mess.
In other words, they have a Chinaman’s Chance.
I saw tin under the cotton hat.../s
Fyi, he’s pimping his patreon post on y/t
https://www.patreon.com/posts/china-has-no-119668367
and oddly doesn’t reference his own webpage
https://zeihan.com/china-has-no-chance/
with no citations/references at any 3 posts whatsoever.
This smacks of ds.
No, the west appears to be hell-bent on self-destructing on it's (woke/corrupt) own, but thanks for asking.
This posting is much like the old FReepers of 20 years ago informative while being humorous at the same time.
Yes. The PRC economy is cratering -hard- and they have a HUGE problem with too many military age males woth too few females.
Either Xi is removed fast or he invades Taiwan (or Vietnam) as a way of distracting and rallying the public.
I can’t see Xi relinquishing power voluntarily.
China has all they need. It is a very resource rich country. They are even 7th place in oil production and could easily improve that at any time.
Make China 1959 again.
Hungry didn’t have money for a war machine.
Until they made most of our items including medicine.