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Given that China invests gigantic sums of money in the US and has vast segments of industry dedicated to selling goods to the US, it is not very clear to me how you've concluded that.


The US is a convenient parasite. Uplift their domestic population, throw in India and all of Africa and China can bear to lose 370 million consumers.


> vast segments of industry dedicated to selling goods to the US

If they don't want anything from their trading partners, the output of those industries can just as easily be directed to their own population.




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