[TigerLikesRooster]

That is pretty much sums up the situation in China. Folks in power over there are obsessed with truly gargantuan grandstanding on the world stage.

China displayed this kind of megalomaniac streak from time to time. There have been cases where they pushed it too far and invited ugly implosion.

[Uncle Ike]

” Folks in power over there are obsessed with truly gargantuan grandstanding on the world stage. [....] pushed it too far and invited ugly implosion. “

Question:

What happens to our country (economically/socially) if/when our essentially sole-source of consumer goods implodes?

Schadenfreude is all well-and-good, but toppling giants cause big ripples.... ;~)