How to handle West economic embargo in hypothetical scenario

it seems that China as a developing country wants to exploit this opportunity to speed up its infrastructure development. so by directing its money to these fixed capital China is telling the west "well you are on your own". i guess China wants to outlast the west in this crisis and when they are significantly weakened China will somehow enhance its position as a major economic power or something

 

Well, I can assure you that if the West did launch an embargo on China, Toyota, Honda, Sony, Samsung, and LG will definetly not jump on the bandwagon. China can also obtain Intel and AMD products from non-Western countries easily.

 

Everything important is already restricted from China. The panic is more on France's side. Their non-essential-to-the-world billions of dollars luxury business is one example that's going to suffer in an already saturated market. And it's arrogant to think that somehow China can't operate at anything without Western involvement. All this talk is just talk. The same with China. China pulls out these statements that its feelings are hurt does nothing productive. Action speaks louder than words. China gave France the impression of its importance by stifling anti-French sentiment earlier in the year. If China wants to get its "message" across, then it should just shut up and be selective on who they let do business with China. China is doing France a favor. China should just start buying what it really needs from Boeing and Westinghouse and shut out Airbus and Areva without saying a word. What China can buy that it needs isn't a monopoly of France. Who's going to follow an embargo when an ally is reaping the tens of billions every year France just lost? Shut out China in an embargo but you can't shut down the factories that made those products. That's the amazing thing about outsourcing. The factories that make those products aren't owned by the company who owns the product. China can still make and flood the world with those products and reap the profits from them. Go ahead and try to embargo China. Then China will have no second thoughts on really supporting interests in the world that counter the West.

See why talk of embrago is a bunch of bull. If they were really in that much of control over China, wouldn't they have exercised that power by now? Embargo will have much more damaging effect to their interests not just commercial.

 

China ultimately needs a strong military for national security. Tibet has the world's largest freshwater reserves, and many abundant minerals. This is why the West wants to divide up China because freshwater will be like Oil, a scarce commodity.

Whoever controls these Tibetan mountains control China because China's rivers are directly fed by these mountains.

China has a lot to be afraid of. If the west embargoes China, then China's economy will be devastated.

What China needs to do is develop the Chinese middle class, so that China's economy is not export oriented but domestic driven. If China can create a middle class of 250 million who will SPEND and drive their economy, then China has no need to fear an Embargo by anyone. Everyone will then want to sell China their goods.

 

i agree with antimatter. if you can produce everything on your own, then as wealth accumulates this "middle class" will automatically expand.

what flyboy is suggesting is in essence to encourage consumerism to a LIMITED extent. this can be achieved by relieving the burden on health care housing and education. but its much more difficult than it sounds.
we also cannot ignore the HUGE potential market in the rural area. if these ppl gets rich, then China gets rich. but then again they have only recently began to enjoy the fruit of economy development after Hu came along.