Rescind all trade deals and ban travel to China. Ban the importation of all products made in China.
The big question left is where will the People’s Republic of CHOP stand in such a conflict? :-)
“Rescind all trade deals and ban travel to China. Ban the importation of all products made in China.”
I agree we need to limit our business with China. However, recall what prompted Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. The oil embargo meant that Japan would no longer be able to fuel its fleet. While the US thought that would bring Japan to the negotiating table the US failed to take into account that negotiating was not in Japan’s DNA. The same is true of China. They are driven by motives we would not even consider, like saving face and desperation to keep any change from happening. The recent law they passed regarding Hong Kong is one indication that they are desperate and that they believe there is no longer any point in negotiating with the US, as they are giving up the special trade relationship HK had with the US. Any further negotiation will eventually lead to the collapse of the CCP, because the things Trump is demanding would take away much of the CCP’s money base and power. (Rule of law and intellectual property rights, to name just two biggies.)
The US and China are on a collision course. One bit of leverage we still have is that the US is a huge supplier of food. It is possible that limiting trade will cause food shortages and price jumps that will cause riots and further destabilize the CCP.
There are two ways to bring about what Trump wants. One is to cause slow and inevitable change in China that eventually collapses the CCP without starting a war. The other is to destabilize the CCP into doing something desperate and stupid, like a decapitation strike, which their mouthpiece propaganda organ has threatened they would do numerous times. (Decapitation as in wiping out the US Pacific fleet and, probably Washington DC.) Yes, that sounds stupid, but even the admiral who planned Japan’s decapitation strike thought it was stupid.
Don’t plan on the CCP not doing something because we think it it stupid.
““Rescind all trade deals and ban travel to China. Ban the importation of all products made in China.””
You think the COVID recession is bad? It will be nothing compared to what happens when your idea is implemented.
We’ve done it to ourselves.