Originally Posted by
Less Hair
China needs trade with the west and raw materials from all over the world. So why risk it all for this now? Why not just wait?
They seem to want this escalation and I wonder why?
Uhhhh, because much the West is going to be putting the screws to the Chinese economy over the next decade. Or did I miss something?
China has lost some of their economic leverage, so they are now exerting themselves on the geopolitical stage. As China’s economy and demographics decline, they become more like Russia and North Korea, and less like the West.