Comments by "xia en Gao" (@gaoxiaen1) on "Can China's economy afford a war with Taiwan? | DW Business Special" video.

  1.  @rubmybelly1316  That's according to international law, which China refuses to obey. They can't have it both ways.
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  2. Or deeper.
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  3. Economic growth? LOL! Only in negative numbers! China is in recession with record unemployment and collapse in the real estate sector. China will need to struggle to achieve zero. The Chicoms can only afford a war if they're willing to gamble it all on a throw of the dice. The PRC is surrounded by enemies, as well as filled with internal enemies (Tibet, Xinjiang. Mongolia, etc...). Even the Han Chinese and party members are fed up with CCP mismanagement. How will the average Chinese subject (not citizen) feel when their only son returns in a body bag, while unemployed, broke, and starving? It only takes a handful of submarines to shut off China from international markets and China is the world's largest importer of food and fuel and very dependent on exports. The PLA can start a war and the PRC will have to fight a half-dozen wars and end up with the disintegration of the so-called "Communist" China. That being said, this is only a rough outline. If I get into details it's much worse.
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  4. The PLA can't fight its way out of a "piss-soaked paper bag.
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  5. OR, declare war on China, nationalize the Chinese "inversments", and disavow all debts to China. That's what the PRC did. Turnabout is fair play.
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