That's the same thing I said on another thread a couple of days ago. I asked why would china screw America? That would be the same as killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
I think China will screw America when they think they can pull off the "Big Screw"...Taiwan. I think China loves the fact that we are spread thin between the ME, Korea, and the fact that we have only half an alliance with Europe. It leaves room for them to get creative in all this. But then I reckon that since they don't actually manufacture anything we actually need we could cut them off completely if they went after Taiwan. Our inlfation rate would go up GDP would initially go down but we would get over it. Then maybe Mexico could assume that role which we be mutually beneficial.