[neutrino]

Yes, absolutely. We're going to be involved from the get-go in such a war.

Um-hmm. And if that's true, what happens to the billions of dollars of U.S. investment in China? What happens to our economy when we can't manufacture the things our military require?

Can you say consequences?

[Don Joe]

what happens to the billions of dollars of U.S. investment in China? What happens to our economy when we can't manufacture the things our military require?

What will happen is that China will sit back and say, "Isn't it great when a PLAN comes together?"

[Poohbah]

Um-hmm. And if that's true, what happens to the billions of dollars of U.S. investment in China?

It gets seized. Then again, we simply stop paying on all those bonds held by China, and that will just about kill the ChiCom economy right there.

BTW, what happens to all that US investment in China when Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong get nuked by the Taiwanese? And what happens to all those US debt instruments in that same scenario?

What happens to our economy when we can't manufacture the things our military require?

Are you seriously arguing that the only place where anything is manufactured is China?

BZZT. Wrong answer.

Can you say consequences?

Absolutely. However, I doubt that you can. To assume that the Chinese can invade Taiwan without any consequences is, to put it mildly, pretty damn stupid.