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To: mac_truck

Very unlikely.
No rational company is going to wreck their best customer.
They may intimidate us into servitude with no shots fired, though.


5 posted on 01/30/2014 7:27:25 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation
No rational company is going to wreck their best customer.

Should read ' best paying customer' no?

How large a tab do you think the Chinese will let the US run before calling in their marker?

And if the US cannot pay its debt, maybe the price of doing business with big-C is staying out of regional conflicts in Asia.

7 posted on 01/30/2014 7:39:06 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: nascarnation

Many thought much the same before WWI. Nationalism is a much more potent political force than trade.


9 posted on 01/30/2014 7:44:17 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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