Crippled is entirely appropriate but most in the west prefer to ignore the reality because it is challenging to their sense of inflated entitlement and superiority that has accrued over 5 centuries of global domination - however if you look at the evidence the US military industrial combine is truly fucked without the refined rare earths China controls supply for.
Why hasn't China taken over Taiwan? You think they are as stupid as that? Think a little more about the situation and what China seeks to achieve...I am not here to explain everything for you.
But think about how China might be a lot smarter than the US empire that has squandered its hegemony and is now on its knees to China.
China need not rush or even turn to crude military violence- all the strategic advantages are increasingly falling into its lap. It seems much more inclined to the subtle power of mercantile leverage. As the dominant global manufacturing nation and increasingly developed in high tech production Taiwans future economic prosperity is increasingly tied to China, not the declining and sclerotic and dysfunctional USA.
Read some history and try to understand the Chinese mindset- it is in many ways a lot more sophisticated than the crude swashbuckling western imperialists.
Crippled is entirely appropriate but most in the west prefer to ignore the reality because it is challenging to their sense of inflated entitlement and superiority that has accrued over 5 centuries of global domination - however if you look at the evidence the US military industrial combine is truly fucked without the refined rare earths China controls supply for.
Why hasn't China taken over Taiwan? You think they are as stupid as that? Think a little more about the situation and what China seeks to achieve...I am not here to explain everything for you.
But think about how China might be a lot smarter than the US empire that has squandered its hegemony and is now on its knees to China.
China need not rush or even turn to crude military violence- all the strategic advantages are increasingly falling into its lap. It seems much more inclined to the subtle power of mercantile leverage. As the dominant global manufacturing nation and increasingly developed in high tech production Taiwans future economic prosperity is increasingly tied to China, not the declining and sclerotic and dysfunctional USA.
Read some history and try to understand the Chinese mindset- it is in many ways a lot more sophisticated than the crude swashbuckling western imperialists.
At the very least read up on eating bitter.