considering the number of times the Name Trump is used in this thread I think your assessment is erroneous. Besides I don’t live in the PRC. Few if any of our members do.
well considering that that’s just about the same globally including for the CCP.
You make it sound like a one sided affair. Trade issues and IP issues go back decades now. This didn’t all happen between May and now heck it didn’t all start in the Trump Administration or Obama these disputes are almost 30 years of back and forth repeated case for case. This isn’t trying to piss China off this is the consequences of trying to cut deals and work it out yet always coming back to square one when the next incident happens.
What is the consequences that come next? Closing more Embassies? Seizing US funds?
The Embassies hurt the PRC just as much as the US. Perhaps even more so as US embassies often hire locals as junior staff. Making them easy targets for intelligence gathering.
Seize US Funds and property? the US Recipricates. US debt? China owns 1.1 Trillion the US owns about the same in old bonds from China. If China claims default and seizes US assets the US can do the same.
Take a Hostages? Happened already in a number of cases. Right now of course with no foreign travel that cuts the options low for black bagging important US business people. If they did grab some abroad it wouldn’t exactly make the. Look like knights in shining armor.
Embargo rare earths? Other sources will appear might hurt short term but yet historically that’s what happened. Greedy capitalists around the world will realize there is a client who needs and is willing to pay they will find new sources and supply or develop new technologies that get around the problem by reducing dependence on that resource yet get greater than or equal to performance. Push to dedollarize? The CCP has been trying to do that for decades. There are rivals like the Euro, Yen and Pound, It the Yuan isn’t there.
Close American plants? They are already closed and looking to relocate.
Trade war? Just had that and it didn’t hurt either side as much as they claim it did the other guy.
Oh the US is having a hard time right now but other than Claimed Chinese numbers which are disputed in the best of times who isn’t? Even then the source Claimed US numbers that are disputed here in the best of times. Especially right now might not be a good time for a China,
? That’s not a good sign for a strong position to take more set backs. I doubt any Revolution. The PLA is the Parties Military arm they won’t turn on the party. Yet at the same time don’t need a revolution to see a nation suffer and faulter. Food security is a critical factor in the security of a State. It shouldn’t be dismissed.