What about the hypothesis that in reality Trump wants to “decouple” from China to enhance is military capability in a war on China?

I mean, it is clear to me that the US has little chance to compete on economic/innovation merit, yet it still has a considerable chance militarily… for now. The psychopaths running the US probably know they can only hope to compete via violence, and in a few years even that opportunity will be lost.

I am afraid of WW3. I really hope the US is so blinded by its own neoliberal koolaid that they continue to bet China is about to collapse, as Gordon Chang has been predicting since 2001.

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According to the IMF, the US has 15% of the world PPP GDP, versus China’s 20%.