I remember the Hunt brothers. Their attempt to corner the silver market broke them. They didn’t take into account the hoards of silver held by private citizens, which came pouring out of closets and bureau drawers across the land when the price of silver soared, not to mention the government intervention which changed the rules to their serous disadvantage.
China doesn’t GAGS. They’re going to invade Taiwan, and kill off the Uyghurs and Tibetans, as well as a bunch of other ethnicities we’ve never heard of, and build their belt and road, and a big stockpile of food is necessary to pull it all off, war or no war, sanctions or no sanctions. The fact that they may make the gueh suffer inflation and/or starvation is just icing on the cake. And you had better damn well watch their genocide Olympics, or Xi’s cronies will rape another tennis star and then disappear her.
Gotta go out and do my T’ai Chi and Bok Mei Pai routine, preparatory for bed. Good night, Hwahwei. Pleasant surveillances.