I don’t pretend to know if he can survive or not.
The nation would be in a world of hurt if we took our hundreds of billions of dollars in trade away.
I think China knows it too.
Kim is on the menu.
China and USA are in kind of a death embrace on the trade issue now. Both would take pratfalls if they released one another.
The practical result would be that China would sit there and cuss if Trump took down Kim, but wouldn’t do anything more. Not if they didn’t want to trigger an internal revolt.
The US could simply default on any debt to China— which would also hurt them a lot, and frankly would help our crazy debt get under control. Like just stop paying the credit card— cause we can— and see how much more money we will have in our treasury, in exchange for cutting loose suicidal regimes. There would be loss of our plant space and technology- because dismantling and moving out would be difficult if not impossible. Thinking Boeing.