My pet schizo theory: I’m pretty sure like 90% of the stuff this admin has done so far is because they’ve gotten info that the CCP is guaranteed to attack Taiwan within the next few years. Rebuilding manufacturing. Creating public sentiment against “legal” immigration so they can be rounded up when the time comes. Sealing the border. Trying to pull out of Ukraine. All of this stuff is great and should have been done no matter what, but the pace suggests that it’s extremely urgent that we get these problems solved quickly. And I can’t think of any other reason why.
If I had to guess why China chose to act? There’s a host of chickens coming home to roost. Their birth rate is abysmal even for East Asians, it’s estimated at around 0.8. Plus 30% youth unemployment. They’ve stopped publishing data entirely (see picrel). In other words, they’re pushed into a corner.
tl;dr Deng Xiaoping was a god amongst men in terms of economic growth and now China is super fucked. So are we of course.
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