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>>21806356
>>21806386

If I could pick just one stock, it would be HII. They're a buy right now, even if a war doesn't materialize. They build a huge chunk of Navy contracts for ships. The war with PRC is going to be a naval war, fought in the western pacific, the straights of Taiwan, the straights of Malacca, and the Indian Ocean.

>>14779089
someone who has lived in China, studied Chinese language and politics in college, and worked briefly as an intern at a defense think tank in DC focusing on China here...

they are THE long term great power competitor of the United States. How we confront of fail to confront them will make or break our civilization, world order, economic markets, whatever you want to call it. This extends to Europe and Canada. The long and short of it is that the Chinese Communist Party and wants what it wants and the Chinese people are 95% behind that. Those desires diverge radically from the post-WW2 world order built by the US and its allies in NATO.

For better or worse, if they win, it means no more petrodollar, no more wars and interventions overseas to defend democracy or human rights (at least by the United States... China is already training for, planning and wargaming out expeditionary operations to prop up client regimes in Africa and South Asia... look for the buzzwords "defending stability" or something similar when it happens), no more unified markets in Europe and the Americas making trade and profits easy for us, probably no more United States as we even know it.

China is the real deal. They are more unified than we are, more willing to sacrifice, more eager to invest blood and treasure in imperial ventures, hungrier to avenge slights by the West. Google "century of humiliation". It's something children in China have been taught in school for generations now. They are coming for us. There's an old saying... "if you take a shot at the king, you'd better not miss". America has been "King" since 1991, arguably since 1945. Right now, they are in a position where they have been setting up a bench, sighting in their rifle, and have now loudly chambered around and taken the safety off about three feet away from the king's head. Meanwhile, the king is sitting in a lazy boy masturbating to Game of Thrones.