Biden ready to take on China?

DO NOT MAKE PROMISES YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF FULFILLING? 

ARE WE NOW SEEING THE DANGERS OF GLOBAL DEPENDENCE?

This weekend, Biden stumbled into making a commitment to defend Taiwan militarily. While to some it may seem it is the right course to make China realize taking over Taiwan will be very costly, it may not get the response that they want. Dealing with China requires a far different approach due to their different cultural view of the world. China may already view the United States as an adversarial nation and now they may believe it may be time to up the ante to show the United States just how dependent we are on China.

While we threaten to ostracize and marginalize China economically, similar to what is happening to Russia, it is an empty threat. The world is now dependent on China for most all of their essential materials. While Trump made steps in steel, and aluminum and other basic materials those initiatives have quickly disappeared due to large profits by international corporations on Chinese manufacturing dominance.

I suspect that China is quietly already limiting their exports of essential supplies to the United States. Even covid tests are made in China as are most ingredients for drugs, not to mention solar panels and basic metals for manufacturing. Did anyone inquire if the ingredients for baby formula are made in China? Tires and many auto parts are either partly or entirely made in China or their basic components. Can we replace all the military equipment stripped from our stockpiles for Ukraine without components from China?

So any threat to China may very well be the catalyst for China to increase its strategy of denying the rest of the world its supply of essential components. Much like are relationship with Russia we are already in an economic and verbal war with China.

While spin and media cover-ups can limit the damage that this administration is doing to domestic stability, blunders with the rest of the world will have long term negative consequences.

There was a positive possibility with a compromise with Russia. Russia's proposals were reasonable and understandable, but we seem to all have accepted the narrative that Putin wants to remake the old Soviet Union or conquer the world, but it was a false narrative. The world is now suffering the consequences of delusional officials in this country who believe they can rule the world.

Now, we are making a similar mistake with China, rather than engagement and demanding fair and equitable trade practices, we are threatening military force with a country we can never successfully defeat without plunging the whole world into the dark ages. If we made a serious decision to become manufacturing independent it would take decades to accomplish and a real change in our regulations.

There was an opportunity for real diplomats to make significant deals with both Russia and China, but it is likely that time has passed. Will the world as we know it, survive this administration?