The USA can’t go to war against China because it would lose.
1. You can’t buy a can opener these days that isn’t made in China. If they cut off the supply of can openers, the American people will starve.
2. The Chinese doesn’t need military force to destroy America, calling in all those loans would bankrupt the USA overnight.
O.K., I’m being a bit silly, but the fact remains; why would China cause harm to its best customers. That would be even more stupid and short-sighted than moving all industry to the country with the cheapest labour force. Oh wait, that’s already been done. China is a capitalist’s dream. No pesky unions. No environmental laws. China is a country that learned capitalism from Karl Marx. Unfortunately, Marx’s views on capitalism were nasty 19th Century stereotypes. China has embraced 19th Century capitalism right down to the child labour level.
Maybe if China continues down this road they will have the urban proletarian revolution that Marx predicted. It’s never happened before, Russia, China, Cuba, and Vietnam were all agrarian peasant revolts.
We should all stop being paranoid about Beijing and go back to being scared of Muslims with bad kidneys hiding in caves.
