I think many people are concerned that U.S. may be necessary to defeat " China militarily in a war to prove his status as a world power. I think the onus is on China to beat U.S.
If I were China , I would worry , an aging population, the population grows slowly , changing values, the massive amount of related assets in other countries too dependent on foreign (U.S. and its allies) for investment.
In the case of the war in China would face this:
Business - Americans left China would be an immediate recession .
- There would be no guarantee of repayment of a billion dollars of U.S. loans
U.S. control of Iraq, and the influence on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (over 600,000 soldiers in the region) basically means the U.S. could starve the Chinese oil in 90 % of the world's oil comes through the Persian Gulf , like Japan in world war 2.
America receives less than 16% of its oil from the Middle East , China has no allies in North America or the troops in the region,
