Russia or China not now in co-operation would be much easier for the USA to handle. Russia and China together are no pushover.
Targeting Russia and pushing Russia towards China was the biggest strategic mistake of the USA. Compounding that mistake was using the US$ hegemony to punish Russia and seizing Russian assets, which resulted in both countries coming together to create BRICS and the de-dollarization moves that followed. What kind of political advisers do the USA successive administrations use to make such horrific missteps is mind boggling.
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The USA does have some cards to play against China, for example the export of jet engines for the Chinese C919, which it has now stopped exporting to China in an attempt to cripple China's aviation sector. Suffice to say, whether the USA and its allies try to cripple China's aviation sector or not, the writing is on the wall that China is going all out to conquer the aviation sector as well.
Those that argue about how detrimental this is for China's development of its C919 planes and subsequent planes, fails to realize that it is a move that is going to hurt the USA more than mere jet engine sales to China. Jet engines need rare earth elements that are all controlled by China and China could put the squeeze further to stifle the making of such jet engines even more difficult. So, it is a case of killing the chicken that lays the eggs or preventing the eggs from hatching into a chicken? Which comes first?
The USA should have learnt lessons from the International Space Station fiasco it engineered by keeping China from participating in experiments in the ISS and how China was able to turn the tables on the USA by sending up the Tiangong Space Station all by itself.
Another lesson that the USA should also have learned was the attempt to collapse Huawei by using all avenues to prevent Huawei from making use of the Android system for its phones and computer operating systems. Huawei is now stronger than ever with its own operating system and platform. There is a saying that what does not kill the victim will make it stronger.
It will only be a question of time before China solves the teething problems regarding its jet engine development and be self-reliant. China needs thousands of commercial jets for its domestic market alone, even if certification for the global operation of its C919 is denied, which means tens of thousands of new jet engines will be needed. China has all the rare earth materials to build them and will be building them. What are those jet engine manufacturers in the USA and Japan going to do without the Chinese market? Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs is a stupid idea.
Now trying to pry Russia and China apart is fruitless. They are helping each other militarily, economically and strategically.
Trump is now targeting Chinese cooking oil. He wants USA to depend on itself, surely not going to be a cheaper alternative for USA consumers really. Is China going to pee in its pants? Just US$1.2 billion is at stake, a ripple on the surface of the ocean. Picking on things that are irrelevant is stupid. But then stupidity has no cure, right?
What else is there to scrape off the bottom of the barrel once China shakes off the threat by just exporting more cooking oil elsewhere. I want cheaper cooking oil here in Singapore too, so please do the necessary China.
As they say when elephants fight, the grass suffers. But Global South countries are not suffering, right? They are enjoying even cheaper stuff in trade with China. China is exporting deflation and who does not welcome that.
Countries should refrain from messing with China. China has taken decades earlier in anticipation of what is happening today. China has put in place things that are of National Security for its long term survival. China did not start trade wars in the face of its preparedness. But it is plain stupidity to start trade wars by being unprepared.
Ya, scraping the bottom of the barrel. Don't sell to China then sell to who?
Will cry like soya bean farmers.
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