Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi warned the West that it would be making a historical mistake if it sought to decouple from China in the interests of reducing risk.
“Whoever tries de-sinicization in the name of de-risking would be making a historical mistake,” Wang said in a speech on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference.
His comments came amid calls over the last year from the United States and the European Union to reduce their dependence on China.
Exactly. Make no mistake, decoupling from China would hurt the West greatly, but the consequences for China would be devastating, to the point of threatening the regime’s rule. I don’t think they quite realize that this would be the immediate and most painful consequence of an invasion of Taiwan. Given how irrational Xi has acted in response to COVID-19 however, I’m not certain he or the yes-men surrounding him are looking at this situation objectively.