The reason why there is no unified Western response to Chinese economic "coercion" isn't because of domestic "wreckists" it's because the US doesn't want there to be for two simple reasons. 1st is that the US is simply in the habit of got mine and fuck you taking full advantage
of others either voluntarily leaving or being forced out of markets whether it be Australian agricultural goods or European semiconductor companies. There are always holes in a sanctions regime coincidentally enough for American companies that foreign competitors always furiously
notice but the journalists, activist, and think tanker sock puppets conspicuously never do. The second and even bigger factor is that economic coercion is America's biggest stick and it doesn't want it's satrapies developing any kind of actual spine or collective self-defense
arrangement that it can't itself undermine at will for. America is the biggest and most perennial abuser of economic blockades and doesn't want any organized resistance of any sort to this power, simple as that.
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