Mah mama always said "Feed a cold and starve a fever". ...or is it the other way around? But, you know how it is, you get sick, lose weight and look pretty good, then your appetite comes back and you`re really hungry gain all the weight back and more.
China really can`t afford much of a hiccup as indebted as they are. To shut down ports, even short term has to be devastating to their economy. We might have to prop them up with more trade deficits than we should, but they`d better reciprocate in buying their commodity needs exclusively from us.
