Agree. But the calculus behind economic bullying/blackmail is that the other country will never, ever be willing not accept any short-term economic pain, and therefore will always cave on increasingly unfavorable terms. If someone is ever willing to accept such pain, then you have shot yourself in the foot, too, since your country can longer do business with that country. Since it's a terrible risk to say that every country will always cave, the likely thing is for decoupling to happen--albeit over the next 10 years as it will take time and incentives (carrots + sticks) to build up the manufacturing capacity China now has. So it just seems ultimately like a policy of total economic isolation for China from the developed world plus India which is over half of global GDP and essentially any market that is at all open and dynamic.