| Birimbau said: China exports to US, yes, but there is no manufaturing in US anymore, everyhing is in China. If they block all chinese manufacturing imports, they have a huge problem: the lack of production capascity for these items that during the past decades moved to China. |
That is all irrelevant to the point I made. We are discussing the event of a war between China and the United States in North Korea. We are talking about what China would do if the U.S attacked North Korea. A war necessarily means that trade between the countries will stop. China loses all of the leverage you keep citing. The U.S has the productive capabilities to supplement a war-economy, which isn't focused on iphones and laptops, but on bombs and guns.
My point still stands, China is not going to cut its second largest trade partner, for North Korea. The buffer zone and fallout from the dissolution of the North Korean regime are cheaper than losing trade with the United States and possibly expanding the war beyond North Korea (which would be a global catastrophe.) If the U.S attacked North Korea, China will likely secure/annex the border regions of North Korea and let the U.S take the rest.
