China has no incentive to go to war with such a large trading partner. Capitalism brings peace.
“China has no incentive to go to war with such a large trading partner. Capitalism brings peace.”
There’s a somewhat famous book that made exactly that argument. It was published around 1914, when Germany was Britain’s largest trading partner. For the historically challenged that means on the eve of an immensely destructive world war that pitted the two trading partners against each other.
And for other slow learners to chew on, the United States managed to embroil itself into an equally destructive civil war despite the existence of the libertarian’s favorite idol, capitalism.
It’s fascinating how libertarians and marxists both view the world through a lens of economic reductionism. Flip sides of a shallow world view that can’t account for world events that aren’t economic, Islam being a current example.