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But China is much better positioned to outlast us during any interruption in trade for the same reason Russia has survived sanctions. They have the local production capacity and access to vast mineral & resource wealth that we can’t match.

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PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Do they? As much as we like to play it quiet, the US exports a lot of food globally- China gets some $17b worth. Those tend to be perishable, so any hot war would have to be over quickly for China to come outahead, and any protracted war would see them need a new breadbasket eother domestic (reducing the industrial/military work pool), or international (which comes with the same risks they have now over US ties).

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- surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Right, but China is making broad new alliances every day across the globe, and we’ve spent the last century making enemies. So who’s better positioned to find alternative trade partners?
  
  “Every time China visits, we get a hospital. Every Britain visits, we get a lecture.” And every time the US visits, we’re bringing barely concealed threats.
  
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- Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  China isn’t reliant on imported food, from the US or anywhere.
  
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