In other words, if China shoots down a civilian airliner the US won’t do squat. It’s no surprise. That’s what happens when you borrow money. The one you borrow it from is going to tell you how to spend it.
Dingdingding. The long and short of the matter is that not only has China outlived an amazing amount of predictions of their collapse, they have us by the economic short hairs. And thus the entire western world by extension.
Obummer literally cannot afford to honk them off, much less start a shooting war that would quickly see their slave labor and manufactured goods vanish. Our economy wouldn’t last one week without a 24/7/365 flow of cheap ChiCom goods.