On April 27th, the US’s Antony Blinken wrapped up a three-day trip to China. He was soundly snubbed by China’s leadership, treated as if he were a third-rate diplomat from a backwater country.
Which he kind of is.
No red carpet at the airport, hostile “talks” where he made ridiculous demands of China that were promptly ignored on the spot, and then sent home with nothing more to show for it al besides perhaps the most awkward photo op picture in recent diplomatic history.
As Xi recently said, “The East is rising, the West is declining.”
This is all relevant to me because of the high possibility that all this poor diplomacy and fractured relationships with China are sure to end miserably someday.
The US lacks the ability to manufacture its own needed goods these days, and China could more readily survive the loss of US dollars than the US could Chinese goods.
So, keep your ‘Great Taking’ awareness on high alert. A massive market disruption is as good a reason as any for that trigger to be pulled.
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by cmartenson 
