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They can hardly specify protection from Chinese. But anyone can guess who it is directed at.
and Chinese are very vulnerable. They are dependent on others as customers for their industries with a balance of trade skewed in their favor for all countries.
Also, talk is not just about moving production out of China to the west. It’s also about moving it from China to other equally cheap countries.
Sweetheart, let's talk geopolitics. I have always loved your contributions and so am gonna be civil.
There are five members of the SC, divided into two groups. The US, Britain and France on one side, Russia and China on the other. Nothing can pass there against China.
Secondly, over the last 30 years of so, the US side of the SC has wasted its goodwill to an extent that the balance of power has tilted towards China. Of the country with nukes, Russia, Pakistan and North Korea are on its side. Just so that you know, Russia has the world's largest nuclear stockpile. Now, I am not saying that anybody would want to start a war but I am telling you the power of the West to determine affairs is fading fast.
Let me take this even further. Turkey - the country in Nato with the largest army - is now in Russia's orbit. Iran, the strongest country in the Middle East, is in China's orbit. The whole of Africa would rather support China than its former colonialists, a few issues notwithstanding (even Francophone Africa has rebelled for once).
Even traditional Western allies are falling apart. In Italy and Spain, people are saying that they do not see the need for the EU and Nato when the first countries to send aid are Cuba, China and Russia. Britain itself, though firmly in the US orbit, is pulling out of the EU, and could break apart (Scotland, Ireland, England etc) in the next 10 years.
My point is, geopolitically things have changed so much that to try and make China look like a push-over is wishful thinking.
As to moving manufacturing to other countries like India and Vietnam, that will hurt China, I agree. In the short-term.
You see, people are stuck in the old mind-set that China still manufactures cheap trinkets. It does, and much much more.
China today is at the cutting edge of human innovation and research. It is, off the top of my head, a leader in 5G, artificial intelligence, moneyless transactions/ICT, space exploration, and medicine. IT SIMPLY< SIMPLY CANNOT BE IGNORED. You may manufacture your shirt in Vietnam, but on people around the world will still want to buy Chinese phones, cheap and several times better than their over-priced American equivalents.
What am I saying? A mother or father can give birth to a child. When this child is young and weak, they can do whatever they want with it. But when the child is all grown and strong, the best the parents can do is respect their child. Because at this stage on, he's stronger than them
The West gave birth to China's growth. There's nothing now they can do about it. Thankfully.
