China cannot take chances with the Americans

 China today cannot afford to take chances with reliance on the USA, the West, even Japan or South Korea. The hard lessons for China had been learnt. Once bitten twice shy.

China must try to be self reliant as much as possible. In my humble opinion, if the West wants to do business with China by all means. If the West wants to de-couple or de-link so be it. China cannot do much about that.

All that talk about China collapsing, or its export sector suffering so badly is not going to push China under, with just rhetorics alone. China is attempting to promote an economy based largely, though not possibly totally, on domestic demand. With a population of 1.4 billion, this is a feasible option though there are pros and cons and prices to pay.

Chinese nationals are reported to be travelling less overseas post COVID, and this would be a chance for the Chinese Government to promote domestic travel to provide a boost for China's economy if they were to travel inside China itself, spending their money at home. China is such a vast country for travellers, full of interesting places to visit, that even foreigners are astounded. Moreover, with all the high speed rail links transversing all over the country, travelling is so easy, fast and comfortable.

China can still do relatively well in trade with Russia, Iran, ASEAN and the BRICS member countries, even if the USA and the Anglo Saxon White clique were to close ranks to sabotage and strangle China's export foray. Sure, there will be detrimental issues, but nothing that China cannot handle with five thousand years of history behind its existence in coping with all kinds of setbacks and disasters. In the process, China has indeed grown stronger.

Anonymous