Container Shipping and Supply Chain Delays with Gregg Easterbrook
The Lawfare Podcast
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The United States and China Will Never Fight
If there is conflict on the open seas, what effect would that have on the overall global economy in this wider supply chain? I actually think that that fact alone, that's a pretty stark fact, is one reason the united states and china will never fight. Even if one side won all the battles, that nation would troy its own economy in the process. What would be victory? And the chinese are actiolly more vulnerable to this than the united states. There's no similar place where ch China could shut down our trade. But wars have ed in the past over a lot less wars have started very irrationally and have been exemplaris of human folly.
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