1: China would dump all US Treasury products they own, which would crater US finances as they exist today.
2: The US still relies on 1950's doctrine of force-projection via aircraft carriers, and China has demonstrated they possess anti-ship missles that are a major threat to carriers. Go ahead and toss a carrier anywhere near the Straits of Taiwan and see what happens.
3: Afghanistan showed how incompetent the current command structure is.
If we did go to bat for Taiwan, it would be the last major engagement of the USA's as a country, as the optics from sunken carriers would wipe away any remaining belief that we should be taken seriously as a power.
If we did go to bat for Taiwan, it would be the last major engagement of the USA's as a country
What do we know about the international banking system?
It's changing favorites from the u.s. to china.
China will only play ball if its currency gets preference, either directly, or through a basket of currencies approach.
That can't happen until the USD is dead. The USD is backed up by the u.s. military.
A failed u.s. war in taiwan would do just that.
What nation do you think, under those conditions, the international banks would favor?
Either way, its war.
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