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Why would the US stop trade with China when it invades Taiwan?

The current US reigime seem to be chomping at the bit to restart dealings with Russia despite their ongoing invasion of Ukraine.



You're looking at a derivative and confusing it for the underlying metric. Trade between the US and Russia remains heavily restricted - what the US government is "chomping at the bit" for is a negotiation, not yet materialized, that would remove many of those restrictions in exchange for peace in Ukraine.

But one key piece of leverage the US has in these negotiations is that they don't need Russian trade. 3 years of heavy restrictions hasn't really changed much in any American's daily life, and I think the public would happily accept 5 or 10 years of the same if it were necessary to achieve some important geopolitical objective. The public would not accept 5 or 10 years of a collapse in the computer hardware market.




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