what if they act more like the mafia than creditors?

[forextrades]

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we're in a win-win, lose-lose thing with them.
Despite the superficial rivalry, we need them, they need us. but they're amassing reserves, we're amassing debt and once they have enough of a middle class to sustain an economy , they can dump exports and we're fucked

The US can always send manufacturing jobs elsewhere. There are plenty of other piss poor countries to exploit.