Originally Posted by
ORAC
Etudiant,
You are going to have to fight them eventually - and I am reminded of a comment from Charles DeGaulle reference the British, that the thing he admired most about them was they always had the sense to fight their wars in someone else’s country....
Actually, I think the fight option is pretty much gone.
When 90% of your advanced semiconductors come from Chinese(Taiwan) factories, you'd be silly to wage war on them.
We still could take the pain of closing our market to them, that worked poorly for Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries, it funded a smuggler subculture immortalized by Bizet's Carmen.
I'd love to see clever solutions, but right now, just stopping the land grab in the South China Seas would be a start, imho.