China

I applaud standing up to China's human rights violations.

But this post grossly underestimates the short term economic effects that cutting trade ties with China would have. Companies would go bankrupt. It is quite likely that the US and possibly the world would enter a recession or depression. These events will have devastating effects on people around the world far beyond the 1%.

We are part of a world economy. We are dependent on China and China is dependent on us.

Surely there are better ways to effect change in China than waging economic war. War of any kind will cause suffering.

In 10 or 15 years the the better way to effect change will be armed conflict in addition to economic recession. In another 30 years there will be no way to effect change. The time to act is now.

Sure, let's act. But is cutting trade ties with China the right way to achieve our goals?

I disagree with the premise that starting an economic war is the right way to get China to change its policies.

What are the alternatives of not kinetic or economic? Sanctions of government officials? Cyber warfare?

Maybe not cyber warfare. But perhaps there are ways to give more and better uncensored information to Chinese citizens.