Power, and if I may diplomacy, vacuums never work in the favor of the people who created it in the first place. The U.S. (and largely other Western) nations en

Power, and if I may diplomacy, vacuums never work in the favor of the people who created it in the first place. The U.S. (and largely other Western) nations enjoy a hefty set of soft power and good economic relations with the majority of countries on this planet precisely because we have actively engaged with them. If you're worried about things getting worse or intensifying, then severing ties with these countries (and China specifically) is a good way to make those worries a very brutal reality. And if that's not enough the blunt reality is that our economies are too intertwined at this point. We can only play the situation as it is, not back out of it completely unless we mean to shoot ourselves in the foot.