China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by anexprogrammer on Saturday June 18, 2016 @01:15PM (#11929528)

I don't see the ramifications playing out remotely like that.

There'd be a diplomatic tit-for-tat leading up to sanctions, they wouldn't just be turned on at 00:00 tomorrow. So there'd be perhaps a year. Sanctions tend to start with specific items and scale up. So it's a process, with a timeline, over perhaps 2 - 10 years.

Plenty of time for significnt amounts of trade to move to india, Vietnam and the other developing economies.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by lostlogin on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:20PM (#11930151)

China holds quite a bit of US currency, the risk of offensive use of this has been assessed by the US as not too severe, but 3.2 trillion is a lot. It might be better used hurting US interests abroad rather than devaluing the $US.

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