There is war in the heavens.
For 40 years the neo-liberals have been enacting their doctrine of tangling nations in deliberately complex trade arrangements with the goal of making war impossible because any attempt to do so would be a mutual suicide pact. This is why the IMF, for example, forced developing nations to trade away their food even when they can’t feed their own people, then buy more expensive food on the open market.
The star of the globalist neo-liberals, however, is on the decline and being opposed by ur-fascist nationalists like Trump and the GOP in the US and the Brexiteers in the UK, who are calling the neo-liberals’ bluff by tearing up the free trade agreements and open border policies. That’s what this lawsuit is: an attempt to deliberately throw a wrench into the tangled economies of China and the US. If the US starts seizing Chinese assets to pay for kangaroo court lawsuit decisions, the ur-fascists are banking on China not having the nerve to fight back.
Two blocs of sociopathic oligarchs are playing chess with all our lives, gambling that the Chinese won’t reply in a shout of fissioning plutonium.