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China is a dependable ally, the US is a country that will randomly threaten their allies militarily and economically for no reason other than that they can. China is behaving like a responsible, trustworthy nation, the US is acting like a mobster demanding "protection" payments. Even if they have gone back on these tariffs, their intention behind all of this was so obvious a child could point it out.
The idea that the nations of the world will just side with the US to "destroy China" is ludicrous. They'd all be destroying their own economies so that their masters in Washington can continue to loot and plunder them. Even the US's most mindlessly loyal vassals are aware that the days of the US empire are numbered and are looking for a way out.
You're also forgetting that nations can choose to just pick neither side, and stay neutral. China is fine with this, and is still perfectly willing to trade with them. I doubt the US would be, and would likely use economic and military threats to force nations to side with them. Historically, threatening people into being your allies doesn't create reliable or effective allies, instead it generally pushes nations away from yours, working with your enemy.
The US is not this undefeatable immortal titan of a nation, and China is not this passive, mindless drone of a nation unable to react to international geopolitics.
So many people here who are so uncharitable towards me...
Please point out where I said "this plan is brilliant and guaranteed to succeed and socialism and China are doomed and we're fucked and Trump and the US are the most masterful planners to ever exist" or anything along those lines which everyone seems to assume I've said based on the hostile response.
Not a one of you has pointed out how this is impossible for the US planners to be thinking this or acting along these lines. It's no more ridiculous than assuming it's all just Trump throwing a tantrum or doing greedy things which to me is true absurdity when it's clear there are bipartisan plans. It's buying into the liberal lie that Trump is some aberration breaking things which were it the case Biden would have reversed a lot of his decisions instead of doubling down.
What Sodium_nitride said. If this was an analysis of the plans of the US establishment, instead of your own geopolitical analysis, you should've made that clearer.