Good old post-imperial denial. Feels like alot of ex-empires have been having a mid-life crisis. Britain wrecks it's trade status, Russia picking fights, Turkey slipping into dictatorship, and then there's Serbia...

Yup, we're just another elderly country suffering from phantom empire syndrome.

That martini was 0.09% of the economy. We're now in a trade deficit Mr Bond.

This is so painfully unrealistic. Neither the US nor Japan would accept a Chinese blockade of Taiwan, it would be a strategic disaster. Both would send ships and aircraft to resupply the country, thereby calling China’s bluff. China would then have a choice, either get out the way of allied ships or fire on them and start WWIII.

Mate, you have millions people living in trailers without access to healthcare and the gun crime rates of a failed state. I wouldn’t be so proud.