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You understand that the US has alienated almost all of its trading partners and is aggressively attempting to kill free global trade, right?

Whereas China is developing a powerful network of rapidly developing trading partners like Africa and the Middle East?

Yep, exactly. US is in the active process of shooting itself in the foot. My point is that China is very dependent on resources imports, so there's no way for them (and any other country) to be self-sufficient or they will stagnate.

The Soviet Union never was the manufacturing power behind a very significant fraction of the worlds products.

And China is very dependent on imports of almost everything. Maybe some rare elements, but e.g. oil is a big part of it (they agressively diversify off it, but it's still a large piece). Global interdependency is a good thing.

Few countries rely more economically on global trade than China though.