The point I made was that no nation should seek economic independence as it is equivalent to applying a sanction against yourself. This is true for everyone, no

The point I made was that no nation should seek economic independence as it is equivalent to applying a sanction against yourself. This is true for everyone, not just China, not just the US. Now obviously you are upset about something, because you've launched into an attack that has NOTHING to do with this point. > Well, people like you cause wars. Doubtful. I tend to see the world as something more than a zero-sum game. I also don't run a country and have very little chance of ever doing so, let alone leading one to war. Also, in a world awash with cash, where bonds can be issued with a negative yield, and still find buyers, and where central banks can issue arbitrarily large sums of currency, this following comment is just plain confusing; > More than that, US needs even more debt and there aren't many places at the moment where you can get a loan of the size that US needs.