Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Is China preparing for war as it conducts stress test during COVID lockdowns?" video.

  1. The West can more easily divest out of China and diversify manufacturing sources (a lot of which is in consideration if not already begun), whereas China polluted and depleted too much of its own farmlands to feed itself. "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy", and sanctions and/or scare-off of civilian ship traffic with the needed seeds would quickly devastate the Mainland. Hence the huge public push to regain agricultural self-reliance, which will be harder to achieve with New China's chemical defilement of its waters and soils as well as hesitation to experiment (considering how often experiments naturally fail).
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  2. They always have been, internal unrest is just as big a part of Chinese history as top-down rule.
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  3. Right, China already has fundamental issues with unreversed aging, overleveraged debts, and chemical pollution of its lands, which combined with rising labor costs basically eradicates further opportunities for easy profits. Part of the reason for the "wolf warrior" attitude these days may be anxiety over how the Party can justify its continued tolerance by the Chinese people.
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