I'd say we already "paid the price" with a million deaths, thanks to their filthy backwater of a country.
China needs to sit down and STFU.
@cato potatoe When,if the communists still controlling Russia are hanged,fired,or even set on fire in the middle of Red Square for their insane idea to invade Ukraine and turn it into a vassal state controlled by Russia again,what China thinks or says is irrelevant.
As long as China is the ONLY semi-first world nation still standing,they are harmless.
Not only harmless,but with no allies,we can starve them out of business in the dark.
Give it a decade or even less,and China will also put a knife in the heart of communism,not to mention any of the politburo still there to hang or back against a wall.
There ARE going to be some massive "boo-boos",though because in all of the history since the dawn of time,the Chinese have never been a free people.
"Adjustments" MUST be made,and those of us in the west need to do our best to not get too pushy too fast. We will need to give the new government a little time to adjust to such a massive new reality.
Still,China can NOT stand alone against the rest of the world. Without Russian designed and build fighter bombers,and everything else from their handguns to their missile launchers coming from Russia,dey be screwed.
Hell,they bought a surplus aircraft carrier from Russia because they couldn't figure out how to build one themselves,and IF it is the "Chinese" aircraft carrier mentioned in the news,chances are they had to import former Russian Navy carrier crewmen to teach them how to use it and keep it from sinking.
IIRC,that aircraft carrier was built while Gorbachev was still the Soviet Maximum Leader.
Can you say "obsolete"?
Can you say "sunk as it leaves port for the first time?