They won't Chinese leadership likes money more than their ego. They're already negotiating because they know how much money is on the line.
I beg to differ. The Chinese leader is an incredible egotist. He banned pictures of Winnie The Pooh because people compared the Pooh to that shithead.
Money ain't shit to these people. They have more money than they could spend in generations. Power and ego is all that matters.
You can't have power without energy, and energy is still traded in dollars, and if the dollar is replaced, you cannot replace the fact that it takes energy to get energy, and petroleum is the easiest most practical, and realistic way to gain energy. You cannot have power without energy first. Power is work over time, work is a function of energy.
Moving goalposts.
You said China likes money more than ego. That's not true. Dollars, energy, work, and your attempt to redefine power as work over time versus the power that comes from mandate and the barrel of a gun, not withstanding.
The Chinese government view their 1 billion desperately empoverished as a "minority". You can't hurt the Chinese government by punishing their poor. They have all the money they need and any bank in the world will turn their yen into dollars to buy energy.
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