No, China isn't going away geographically or culturally but the China that you THINK you know is.
China is in a terminal economic free fall. The reasons are legion but cutting to the core is the fact that they cannot be trusted. No dictatorship or nation with centralized control can be trusted.
We, the developed world, learned a lot of lessons from the Wuhan Flu. Primarily depending on a single point of manufacture was foolish. That was a tenant that was held as gospel until the late 1980's. We, the West, became complacent and forgot the rules and now we're decoupling from China.
The next lesson is more recent. A group of raghead religious radicals have disrupted 12% of the worlds trade. And while Europe is the primary victim of this disruption in a globalized economy everyone is going to suffer financially. Yet a further impetus for decoupling.
There are only two relatively secure trade routes in the world. Across the Pacific to the Americas and across the Atlantic to the Americas. That's it folks, all others transits are easily disrupted zones of high risk. While Europe is short on raw material and energy, they can feed themselves. China has some raw material but have neither energy nor food. The Americas have ample food, energy, and considerable undeveloped raw materials.
Europe will attempt a re-colonization of Africa (of sorts) but how successful that will be is subject to question. That is the logical solution to their current and future problems.
Regardless, China is being removed from the global trade equation.
China is in a terminal economic free fall. The reasons are legion but cutting to the core is the fact that they cannot be trusted. No dictatorship or nation with centralized control can be trusted.
We, the developed world, learned a lot of lessons from the Wuhan Flu. Primarily depending on a single point of manufacture was foolish. That was a tenant that was held as gospel until the late 1980's. We, the West, became complacent and forgot the rules and now we're decoupling from China.
The next lesson is more recent. A group of raghead religious radicals have disrupted 12% of the worlds trade. And while Europe is the primary victim of this disruption in a globalized economy everyone is going to suffer financially. Yet a further impetus for decoupling.
There are only two relatively secure trade routes in the world. Across the Pacific to the Americas and across the Atlantic to the Americas. That's it folks, all others transits are easily disrupted zones of high risk. While Europe is short on raw material and energy, they can feed themselves. China has some raw material but have neither energy nor food. The Americas have ample food, energy, and considerable undeveloped raw materials.
Europe will attempt a re-colonization of Africa (of sorts) but how successful that will be is subject to question. That is the logical solution to their current and future problems.
Regardless, China is being removed from the global trade equation.
