...and with so much of our manufacturing moved offshore, it will take a herculean, World War II type effort to catch up and put the enemies down.
That is the whole point of what I am trying to say.
The Chinese are on a big upswing. It would be very painful at this point economically to cut their funding off, because we have engrained our own economy so much into theirs...but that pain will pale compared to what may well eventually come in terms of open conflict...anbother World War IMHO...and not just against terror groups, but against nations who ally themselves with them (China, N. Korea, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and potentially several more).
All of that is the principle reason I wrote the fictional Dragon's Fury story.
"The Chinese are on a big upswing. It would be very painful at this point economically to cut their funding off, because we have engrained our own economy so much into theirs...but that pain will pale compared to what may well eventually come in terms of open conflict...anbother World War"
That's why I thought it was insane for us to embrace the PRC's economy as we have in the past 15 years - we never should have allowed them to move toward greater economic integration (MFN, WTO, etc.) without fundamental political change there first. The rationale (in addition to drooling greed) seems to be that opening up their economy would change their politics over time. But that was always implausible in less than a 30-50 year time frame, and we do not live a half century from now - we have to survive the next couple of decades first!