What good would it really do to cut them off from imported foodstuffs?

They're virtually self sufficient, and whatever they are short, they'd only have to eliminate or eat that portion of the population.

Maybe they created the Covid-19 to cull their own population of elderly and sick, and it got out of control.

Has anybody thought of that possibility?

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

They rely upon energy imports via sea to power their cities.

You're not self sufficient if you're reliant upon others for energy. The US learned that one the hard way in the 1970s

You seem to have missed the not so subtle.

If they were not food self sufficient, wouldn't they need to import food rather than export?

Maybe they created the Covid-19 to cull their own population of elderly and sick, and it got out of control.

Has anybody thought of that possibility?

It was part of their internal plan to become fully food self sufficient.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Exactly why it was a pathetic half measure by a shitty enabling president. The trade war strengthened China's strategic position at the cost of their economy, a good trade for the PRC.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

China imports wheat. They don't necessarily need it to survive.

They produce enough rice to replace the wheat...they have achieved a virtual 1:1 ratio of rice produced to rice needed.

I don't think they would release something as unpredictable, random, and inefficient as this virus to kill citizens they did not want to feed. They would just round them up or stop feeding them.

What is interesting is that it certainly seemed to work to end the protests in Hong Kong and the coverage of that.

Yet they would release something as unpredictable, random and inefficient upon the rest of the world?

Yet they would release something as unpredictable, random and inefficient upon the rest of the world?

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Their entire economy is based on selling stuff to westerners. so yeah, I'm pretty sure the master plan was to destroy their own economy. great plan.

Eyeing a rising power across the Pacific with radically different values, a U.S. administration aims to boost economic integration with friendly nations in the region as a counterweight. Key participants include Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam.

But we’re not talking about the now defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, which was championed by President Obama and torpedoed by President Trump.

Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. was looking at how to restructure supply chains with the help of friendly nations including Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam. On Monday, Reuters reported that the U.S. is pushing for a new alliance of “trusted partners,” including companies and civil society groups operating under common standards, called the Economic Prosperity Network, as a way to reduce dependence on China-centric supply chains.

A smaller TPP still exists, called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership—or CPTPP—which includes all of the original participants apart from the U.S. A logical next step—albeit a difficult one politically—would be for the Trump administration to rejoin it. Many economists have long argued that any attempt to confront China unilaterally on trade is doomed to fail.

The TPP is dead and the CPTPP is old news. Long live the Comprehensive and Progressive Network for Trans-Pacific Economic Prosperity.

Globalism is an acceptable hardship we need to bear in mobilizing our coalition against the existential threat of China. It's not really hypocritical at all for the State Dept and DOD to be advocating a different path.

The world has changed fundamentally and whats best for the economies of Australia, New Zealand, USA, SEA and Japan is the utter and complete annihilation of China by either famine or aerial hellfire. Once that's taken care of we can go back to abandoning bullshit globalist economics.

The agreement was there. It was done. Years and years go negotiation. Built to fight against China. Donny Dumbfuck pulled out and now he's scrambling.

Maybe you don't remember, but a lot of people beyond Trump thought that was a bad deal. In fact, Hillary Clinton was staunchly against it:

https://ballotpedia.org/2016_presidenti ... trade_deal

Aware.

They were all wrong.

I am sure.

well the entirety of Chinese history is basically the ling ding rebellion succeeds in toppling the fu kang kong resulting in the duk song dynasty. casaulties: 80 million.

so yeah, what you pose wouldn't be totally out of character.

Based on what? How was the U.S. economy doing prior to this pandemic?

By not focusing on the next 18-36 months but years and decades ahead of us.

By not focusing on the next 18-36 months but years and decades ahead of us.

Aware.

They were all wrong. Neither Dems or Repubs had the nuts to pass it.

TPP was just another off shoring, big business investment. Just more sweatshops in Malaysia and Brunei and Vietnam.