Brainsploosh @ Brainsploosh @lemmy.world

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I mean, the few have traditionally had the same weakness: the many...

There are so many factors in place already, that this seems a natural escalation.

You have civil discontentment/unrest in China, a power structure having trouble uniting a populace getting accustomed to higher living standards, a splintered and war-taxed US also fighting civil unrest and also with a troubled power structure.

If any of them were threatened by famine, they'd basically have to go to war to keep the populace under control.

Also, China has been jockeying to assert their global power and haven't had a better position in modern times.