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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by baybal2 on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:25AM (#23792452)
This sentiment has logic to it.

But, I don't see any US president standing for it before the election, or at least attempting to sell it to his electorate/funders, unless pretty much a hot war is happening.

USA was the biggest industrial power by late thirties, and I think no country would've stood for Germany in the open on the global arena by then. The situation is more than a bit different now.

Be hopeful that the politicians will be as logical as you are.

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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by ardy42 on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:50PM (#23793466)
> But, I don't see any US president standing for it before the election, or at least attempting to sell it to his electorate/funders, unless pretty much a hot war is happening.

I don't think it would be a hard to sell the American public on some kind of rationing if Beijing suddenly embargoes the US in a way that necessitated it. Given the economic dependencies that you cite, I think a US-initiated decoupling would likely proceed slowly enough to not cause critical disruption, just higher prices.

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