Exactly, the west is far more dependent on China than the other way around. That said, there’s a good passage from This Soviet World about the way USSR was trying to navigate things after the revolution, and I feel like it might be the rationale behind what China is doing right now as well:
At what point do you tell these people to get bent and ignore them indefinitely. What are they gonna do? Divest from your factories? Lol
Exactly, the west is far more dependent on China than the other way around. That said, there’s a good passage from This Soviet World about the way USSR was trying to navigate things after the revolution, and I feel like it might be the rationale behind what China is doing right now as well: