Who Would Get Hurt More If We Completely Sanctioned China?
We are so smug thinking it would crush the dragon, but will it?
It seems obvious that as the 2024 election draws ever-so near, China-bashing and the baying for Beijing’s economic blood will increase exponentially and eventually lead to more sanctions backed by the threat of a naval blockade of the Malacca Straits to put China in its (second) place in the world order for good.
That seems to be the neo-con swamp-fever dream anyway.
The conventional wisdom among the literati, the mainstream press, and our congress critters is that belligerent as it may act, Chinese posturing is all sound and fury signifying nothing. They maintain that China needs the insatiable U.S. market for its cheap goods and would suffer devastating economic and military consequences if it tries any funny business vis-a-vis Taiwan and will fold in less than 90 days if it tries to invade.
In their telling of the coming potentially catastrophic conflict with the Chinese dragon, the U.S. Navy’s 5th and 7th fleets on either side of the Malacca Straits can easily block China’s inward oil flows and outbound exports, hence drowning her ports with iPhones and solar panels it can’t sell and force it to shutter its factories because it can’t burn more oil. Game over!
