Anyone else most concerned about Trump's China policy?

[Alhena]

After Tillerson's statement hinting at a blockade of the Spratly Islands, war with China is starting to seem more and more likely under Trump. While I hate and fear Trump for many reasons, potential war with a country with ICBMs pointed at us has to be at the top of the list, for me at least. I can easily see Trump trying to show what a tough guy he is with China, and saving face is very important in the Chinese culture. Really worried this will end badly.

Anyone else really concerned about this?

[Sanity Claws]

1. You can name any one of his policies

and I will say I am concerned.
It is hard for me to pick out a single policy or action that I am most concerned about because so many of them could lead to war, civil war, or other things that are not good for living things.

[Squinch]

2. Concerned? Really quite terrified, actually.

And I think your analysis of the personalities is dead on.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. China just by nature is a

true Capitalist Society. Trump as well as the USA will never know what hit them if they go cold turkey on China. Understand this,their Economy is now greater than ours and growing at a faster pace.

This is just reality and if one thinks the China Government will give up their American interests,not going to happen. Money is fungible and that is the bottom line.

[BSdetect]

4. drumph imagines he can bully and bluster a great deal in any circumstance yet he is totally clueless

re diplomacy

And his advisors are also stupid

[mercuryblues]

5. I don't think

a full out war will take place. China will do the same thing it did to the Bush admin when they started trash talking them. Start dumping stock on Wall St. They own enough that it will cause the market to suddenly drop. If that doesn't work, they will call in their loans to the US federal government,1.3 trillion. They also have the option of closing Trump's and other corporation's manufacturing plants, stop shipping their goods to the US and freezing American assets. They could even push for sanctions at the UN. That might work, depending on how many countries trump manages to piss on.

[LittleBlue]

6. I'm not

We have many times more ICBMs pointed at them than they at us. On top of that, we're their biggest single customer. They would be destroying the largest market for their products. Their economy will tank if we merely shift Chinese manufacturing to other countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and India.

Without an effective navy, they really have no leverage here.

[Alhena]

8. They have "carrier killer" missiles on shore

As well as a number of smaller vessels that can operate close to shore and carry missiles which are deadly to smaller ships.

[LittleBlue]

9. It isn't effective

Hence why it's only been able to hit a concrete carrier parked in the desert. It's much harder to hit a moving carrier based on delayed satellite images.

If they miss, we level Shanghai Carthage-style. Would they risk it?

[djsunyc]

7. so...

hard line on china.
buddy buddy with putin.

is it b/c chinese folks don't "look" like he does?

[get the red out]

10. Terrified

[Leghorn21]

11. What I have never understood is why DFT has been

dissing China so glaringly for all these months of his effing campaign, and continues to do so. Doesn't he do major business with China? Doesn't Ivanka have her stuff made in China?

Doesn't he know that Walmart shoppers/American shoppers depend on Chinese goods to survive? I think he does - so it's not adding up -

May I reference the infamous dossier? It mentions on page 8 that his campaign was not too concerned about Russian hacking rumors/implications because it deflected attention from his massive business deals in China and "other emerging markets"...which, if I understand correctly (there's a good chance I do not!), would mean that he and China are in cahoots, and it's all a ruse, this poking them in the nose so often, so gleefully?

[spanone]

12. i'm concerned about every possible policy he stands behind

[canetoad]

13. Very concerned.

Australia and the US are allies, we have US bases and facilities here. Scary times.