[johnpmayer]

Unless it turns out that strong protections for intellectual property rights isn't correlated with the survival of a sovereign nation. Then it won't matter how loudly the international community complains; China will just do its thing. They're large enough and have the agricultural and industrial base to weather isolation in the way that Iran/Russia do not.

[trevyn]

Survive? Sure. Thrive by global standards with trade restrictions? Not a chance.