Originally Posted by
Ayrsson
"The Chinese want to buy up our West End theatre" should be re-worded, "our government won't prevent the Chinese from buying up our West End theatre".
This isn't the 19th century anymore. The West has massive investments in China. This is the principle reason there won't be a war with China. And that's why there can't be an embargo on Chinese manufactured goods. Many of those goods are produced for Western companies whose production facilities are located in China. What did the US do to prevent it's companies from outsourcing decades back? It encouraged them. That's what caused China's rise. Many stated not only at the time, but loooong before that (as early as the 1930s) that as soon as the Chinese got a hold of Western-made production technology, their ability to satisfy markets would far outstrip that of the West in a very short time, simply because of the giant resource of manpower the Chinese possess. But, corporate greed, the desire for profit over national wellbeing, won the day. And now a massive amount of the goods you buy are poor quality 'made in China'/'made in PRC' products.
Chinese power is a Western creation. Just as in the Soviet Union, Chinese industrial and manufacturing might originated in the West. They gained Western investments, western technology and western support. The Chinese were a borderline Third World nation until the British Empire convinced them to accept Western investment.