1) Wreck the Yuan.
2) Impose 200% tariffs on all Chinese goods.
3) Support democratic reform with hard dollars.
4) Embargo all pro-chinese puppet states (south America)
5) Let the civil war take care of it's self.
In the series, I am trying to make the point that the current scenario and "Permanent Favorite Nation Status" lead, IMHO, to very serious war, where to start we fare terribly...although in my series, we ultimately triumph after unbelievable carnage.
6) Nuke them till they glow.
The Vietnamese kicked their @$$ if I remember correctly.
China has been defeated by force of arms many times in the past 200 years. In fact, it is hard to find a world power that hasn't defeated China at some point in the last two hundred years: the First Opium War, the Second Opium War, Shimonoseki, the Boxer Rebellion, Manchukuo - China was the "sick man of [east] Asia" (
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2) Impose 200% tariffs on all Chinese goods.
3) Support democratic reform with hard dollars.
4) Embargo all pro-chinese puppet states (south America)
5) Let the civil war take care of it's self.
Why would we want to do all this now? These steps would definitely start a war. These are all good things we can threaten to do, or do, IF China provokes us directly or attacks our interests anywhere. If that happens, we should do all that AND MORE...if not, let's continue to advance the demise of the Chicom govt and bring China into our camp as an ally.
7.) Persuade the Russians to avoid building a pipeline into China. Pressure the Kazakhs to do likewise and fund our own pipelines out of Central Asia to draw off those oil supplies.
8.) Keep the dollar weak, to make oil all the more costly in Yuan.
9.) Keep tanker rates inordinately high.
10.) Sop up surplus oil on the market with massive "strategic" stockpiling, and prod the rest of the world to do the same.
11.) When people like Saddam start doing equity oil deals with the Chinese, overthrow their regimes (Venezuela), occupy their countries (Iraq) or bleed them to death with rebellions and guerrilla war (Sudan).
You will see we are already five years into this economic war. It will last another decade, or until China cracks.
Good points.
But won't happen.
This would also mean cutting off all trade and blocading Russia, because it is a main supplier of weapons to China. This, in turn, could spark a war with Russia. Fighting BOTH the Chinese and Russians (And the Former USSR states still loyal to it)... Can't be done!