But they lack a navy sufficient to control the open seas. They can control their territorial waters well enough with their anti-air and anti-naval systems but beyond that they don't have the reach. Basically neither the US nor China can hit each other well enough to make a decisive war so there's no real incentive right now. But I can imagine Xi and company coming up with some nonsensical patriotic reason to get people mad enough to at least embargo the US even if it hurts them more in the long run.
Why would the US ever engage in a conventional war against a global power ever again? There's a reason why the US hasn't adopted a no first use policy for nukes.
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But they lack a navy sufficient to control the open seas. They can control their territorial waters well enough with their anti-air and anti-naval systems but beyond that they don't have the reach. Basically neither the US nor China can hit each other well enough to make a decisive war so there's no real incentive right now. But I can imagine Xi and company coming up with some nonsensical patriotic reason to get people mad enough to at least embargo the US even if it hurts them more in the long run.
Why would the US ever engage in a conventional war against a global power ever again? There's a reason why the US hasn't adopted a no first use policy for nukes.