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If you become dependent on another country to produce some good, then you become vulnerable to them withdrawing that same good. Globalisation is arguably bad se
by ogogmad 6y ago
If you become dependent on another country to produce some good, then you become vulnerable to them withdrawing that same good. Globalisation is arguably bad security. It makes sense for democracies to favour trade with other democracies, which they're less likely to have conflicts with.
- davedx 6y agoThat dependency goes both ways: it’s an interdependency. I suggest you read about the European Coal and Steel Community after WW2. The Russians want to sell Europe their gas despite being somewhat politically opposed: that money props up a huge chunk of their economy. The oil and gas oligarchs would not be happy with Putin if he stopped exports.
- bassman9000 6y agoI suggest you read about the European Coal and Steel Community after WW2. Post-war European democracies and CCP China are apples to oranges. Not only in the freedom and democracy ratings sense. The EU has still to makes leaps in terms of becoming a union, and they're geographically next to each other, and culturally close, to a level the US and China will never be.
- davedx 6y agoThe theory is trade is an interdependency that puts the brakes on war regardless of cultural differences. Europe was almost constantly warring before the formation of the Common Market. China needs the trade as much as we do
- bassman9000 6y agoIt's the other way around: it's because diplomacy and lack of war that economic interdependency can be built. China needs to trade far more than we do. That's why there will be no war even if some decoupling happens. China can't afford it, at many levels, including the US being the oceanic route police.