Too complicated, it was Putin

I don’t agree with that. The sooner China blockaded or refused to sell in certain sectors, the more likely it would have been for the US to find alternative supply chains. The yankkks may be getting ships from the ROK or Japan, maybe even Europe. Other industries could go the same way, where some third country makes shit for the US military, and I’m betting China wouldn’t be so aggressive against this third country, just like it isn’t aggressive with US outposts like ROK, Japan, Philippines (discounting the dispute on the SCS), etc. We already seeing some countries “decide” they wanna be treaded on (or hopefully I’m wrong about this).

Fostering US dependency on them is one of the things China can (allow the US to) do. If I was China, I would precisely be worried about the inverse, having to use tariffs/sanctions sooner (taking in mind the time it’d take for the given industries to fully halt/collapse) than needed to significantly damage the US military/industry capacity and ending up with a more resilient US in the future, which is what the Trump administration apparently wants. The current status quo has been good enough for China. One last benefit of this is that all these technologies are in their possession and the US isn’t even left with the crumbs.

Also anti-China rhetoric doesn’t mean much for them, they’ve been coping with that for decades

Except under a socdem government with some of the most reactionary armies combined, no chance of this happening

Damn I need one of those

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