Welcome to the real world, where you can't take any politicians (Western or Chinese) too seriously, or else you will be disappointed. Heck, we will be in WW3 already if we took every slight over Taiwan too seriously, but the clear redlines 1) no nukes, 2) no US bases, 3) no formal independence are the main one to worry about. Everything else is a distraction, like Pelosi visit, trainers, arms sales, etc..
Wait, do you even know what you're talking about? The cost to the US from watching the PRC take over the ROC is the total loss of confidence in American power in Asia. This will herald to the world that America's will in Asia is supplanted by China's. So if they've decided that they cannot successfully militarily intervene and just have to watch this happen, the "popcorn" they'll be eating will probably be harder to swallow than if they were dingleberry flavored.
US is much poorer than 1970s thats for sure due to poor human resource development. yes it can attract foreign talent but it need alot money printing to pay even higher income to the to best and outsource the rest causing inflation for most of its population. US keep afloat as long it can dig ground regardless of environment and allow mass migration.
How about a shock caused by decoupling of the Petro dollar? Or just general decoupling of the dollar?
Hmmm, one could add Israeli to the list as well as the only thing I learnt is that as a collective they seem to enjoy bombing/butchering innocent civilians including the elderly and babies while posting troll faces and using the whole anti-semitism argument as the go to defense of choice when people point out the obvious. Man, for what they have done to the Palestinians, they truly don’t deserve peace of any kind, and anyone that tries to bring up the holocaust thing, should seriously consider the fact that such a defense has long since lost its meaning the moment they tried to pull the colonialist crap on the Palestinians for last half a century or more
Yeah see that's the problem. China already invested a lot more in Vietnam earlier than the west did since they were too busy getting scammed by Modi...
By violating pretty much every international law, showing to the world openly that they simply do not give a shit, one could argue that if the tables were turned in the future, they would also be excluded from any protectionist statute established by international organizations.
