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> continuing it's healthy trends towards increased economic and political importance.

They "just" need to flip the script: be the single superpower that all countries are dependant upon, and then take over Taiwan. And then announce "Does anyone have something to say about what I just did?", and enjoy the silence. Already China is investing all over Africa, buying their compliance (which is what the US also did in the past).

Thanks to Daddy Issues 1 (Musk) and 2 (Trump) in the White House, their path just got a lot easier.

The response of the Russian 2014 invasion of Crimea was also quite muted because the EU was dependant on Russia's energy..



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