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love these sheer fucking hubris threads.
So the plan is to attempt to turn the entire country of China to dust conventionally. That should end well....Step back, take a few deep breaths and start the long road of ACTUALLY decoupling with China. We were starting that process and some of us warned old Biden would fuck it all up.
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I was just saying that taking out an aircraft carrier (+strike group) is a lot more difficult than people seem to think, and "sitting duck" is laughable bordering on preposterous. If that were the case, China wouldn't be plunking down billions on their own fleet or prancing their new Type 3 out for the world to see this Summer.
Listen, I honestly don't give a fuck about American hegemony, Chinese ambitions or the idea of a multipolar world. I don't see it as "good guys" and "bad guys", I don't speak from a position of moral high ground, I don't care about human rights or even pretend to. I care about American Industry, period. My problem with China is that they fleece it by up to $600 billion dollars per year.
There is no agreement, contract, deal, pledge or promise that they won't promptly wipe their ass with, particularly in regards to IP, industrial tech and trade. It's endemic within mainland Chinese culture or something. It is untenable, bordering on virtually impossible to maintain any sort of 'normal relations' or partnerships with them on anything whatsoever.
The plan would be an apolitical, domestic nationalist agenda with policy focused strictly on the development and strengthening of the life-blood sectors and industries that form the backbone of American prosperity and national security. The decoupling would begin with full measure FDI restrictions and export controls. But then I look at the absolute state of American politics and the American people.