They're beholden to us if they want to keep that.

Exactly. IF. Big IF.

Your projection of western mentality to other civilizations doesn't help, really.

Remember? - China are comunists. What communists think about money? You definitely should know that.

China will use US debt against US. At time they choose.

As for market for their goods, don't you see that China is creating that market for themselves around the world. What US could offer from the point of view of market? Miserable 300M customers. And that's all. This market is already full, and there is no any chance it will grow. And China now have not only home appliances and smartphines to sell, but also cars, planes, machinery and so on. How US looks like as a customer for that Chineese goods? Like nothing. Americans hardly will buy cars of Chineese brands, and US airlines are not taking places in line to order Chineese planes.

So US is exhausted as market for China. No perspective, no place to grow and so on. US is not interesting for China as market anymore.

Africa, Middle East, South America - much more customers, order of magnitude larger market. And they have resources China need. All China need to do to make people from that countries China's customers is to rise their prosperity. Create jobs, provide machinery needed to extract resources, pay for resources. And China gets 3-5B customers.

Guess, what China, being communist, will choose - declining US market with 300M customers max or growing market of 3-5B customers, who, meanwhile, will not constantly lecture China about "freedom", "human rights" and "democracy"?

China used US to rise production and acquire technologies. Now US is just useless for China.

China is not some US European vassal. You can't just apply western pattern of behaviour to them.

They're beholden to us if they want to keep that.

Exactly. IF. Big IF.

Your projection of western mentality to other civilizations doesn't help, really.

Remember - China are comunists. What communists think about money?

China will use US debt against US. At time they choose.

As for market for their goods, don't you see that China is creating that market for themselves around the world. What US could offer from the point of view of market? Miserable 300M customers. And that's all. This market is already full, and there is no any chance it will grow. And China now have not only home appliances and smartphines to sell, but also cars, planes, machinery and so on. How US looks like as a customer for that Chineese goods? Like nothing. Americans hardly will buy cars of Chineese brands, and US airlines are not taking places in line to order Chineese planes.

So US is exhausted as market for China. No perspective, no place to grow and so on. US is not interesting for China as market anymore.

Africa, Middle East, South America - much more customers, order of magnitude larger market. And they have resources China need. All China need to do to make people from that countries China's customers is to rise their prosperity. Create jobs, provide machinery needed to extract resources, pay for resources. And China gets 3-5B customers.

Guess, what China, being communist, will choose - declining US market with 300M customers max or growing market of 3-5B customers, who, meanwhile, will not constantly lecture China about "freedom", "human rights" and "democracy"?

China used US to rise production and acquire technologies. Now US is just useless for China.

China is not some US European vassal. You can't just apply western pattern of behaviour to them.