With the global supply chain as interconnected as it is, and with as heavily invested the west is in China… when China’s house of cards tumbles it will twist s world with it. As we’ve seen the last 1 3/4 years, the powers that be will always jump at the first hint of an emergency to restrict liberty and expand centralized power in their hands. A global economic meltdown would in their eyes be used as evidence of how capitalism doesn’t work