> but how would the US feel about a country You mean about anonymous individuals (who might or might not be citizens of that given country) throwing around tha

> but how would the US feel about a country You mean about anonymous individuals (who might or might not be citizens of that given country) throwing around that idea on an online forum? But I'll try not being facetious. I do of course understand your point, even if I do think you overdramatizing it. Yes US has been waging a commercial war with China, just like China was waging a war with the US. I don't really see how is the US the clear aggressor here (of course it mainly has itself to blame for entering into this unsustainable relationship with China to begin with; however I still strongly believe that in relative terms China benefited significantly more from US/rest of the developed outsourcing much of their industrial/etc. production to China than the other way around, though). And obviously China is a clear aggressor in certain aspects (e.g. how would as British citizen if Germany/France/etc. started threatening to invade your island over Brexit?). If that's not a good analogy we could use Ireland and Britain instead. > possibility of cutting them off of global supplies and even blocking their shipping routes Anyway, this is sounds extremely far fetched. Orthogonal to what the US was and is still doing; I don't think any country did more to keep global shipping routes open for the 50+ years or so. Blockading China would be the equivalent of purposefully shutting yourself in the gut (even if we ignore any potential military reaction)