US planes challenge China air zone

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Mr Khan said:

daredevil.shark said:
China has $1.3 trillion worth of foreign currency. If china want then they can cripple US economy (at the same time taking themselves out). I guess this will settle soon and everything will go back to normal.

True, they could, but in doing so they would effectively end trade relations with America which would pull vast amounts of foreign trade, let alone that crippling the american economy would set everyone back by decades.

It's really not viable for leverage.

and cripple their own economy in turn. 

China really would hurt a lot more then the US in that case.

The US would default but could claim diplomatic reasons for the default, and likely would go about per normal mostly otherwise.  Meanwhile China gets shut out of basically all the western markets except Australia.  (Not west, but cosndiered part of the west.)

In the long run, such a move might actually benefit the US.  While it'd fuck over china... they've cobbled togetehr a decent secondary block, but the big difference is, those countries aren't going to shut out the US and EU.