Comment by seanmcdirmid
5 days ago
China has a good economy and export business that it wants to protect, which “protects” Taiwan since much of their export business goes poof if they decide to invade the island. The “detachment” of the US and Chinese economies makes an invasion of Taiwan more likely, not less. Economic entanglement has led to more peace than military force projection.
You can and need to have both. Look at Ukraine.
Ya, but Russia was an economic basket case with a resource curse before they invaded Ukraine. They didn’t lose much economically because they didn’t have much to lose, and perhaps Putin used Ukraine as a huge distraction for Russia’s huge domestic problems. China is different, they are going to grow into the #1 super power this or next decade. Hopefully that makes it much less likely for them to turn their back on the western world (at least until that happens).