Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
You´ve outsourced much of your industry to China and if you now block that trade it´s you who´s left without the products.America did fine before china. Why no nothing option? Nothing would happen. You act like we need China. We dontSo the orange Emperor threatens China to break the economic ties to the country. Let´s lookup the cards they hold.
China:
- Actually the place stuff is made
- Largest forex reserves
- Major US loaner
- Strong military
USA:
- A large crowd of well funded customers
- A megalomaniacal madman with the finger on the red button
- Mobile, high effective, fleet with limited war capacity
Under the assumption that the USA is generally hostile towards every country, it is not a smart idea to break ties with North Korea. The economic ties are minimal anyway and North Korea has more business with South Korea. A ban would hit South Korea more while China would lose a strong ally that works as natural stronghold in case China and the USA go to war.
However, the scenarios for Trump´s America are not bright.
You´ve outsourced much of your industry to China
Imports from China are less than 2.5% of our GDP.
We'd survive.