• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    And yet China, who has a naval base in Djibouti, seems to just be sitting back and letting everyone else tackle this

      • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I don’t know, maybe because they are directly affected by closing a major trade route with one of their largest trading blocks.

        Of course they could always sit on their hands, make rude noises and let the US carry their weight… Which is what most of the world expects nowadays.

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          1 year ago

          And they can just hike their prices like everyone else is doing. So why invest time and resources into lowering them back down if it doesn’t affect them?

          China is mostly self-sufficient, most of the world is not.