[rualca]

> Achieving high-tech autarky is a first step towards a war with china becoming viable.

That's a false dillema. The choice is not between self-sufficiency and war with China, and dependency and ever-lasting peace with China.

The choice is actually between war with China when China controls all the industry, and war with China when it fails to control and restrict access to that resource.

Given the choice, achieving self-sufficiency is more likely to ensure peace/dissuade war than dependency.

[tovej]

I see, it looks to me like you've replaced one false dilemma with another false dilemma.

Why would a war with China be inevitable?