I don't refute the high poverty rate, which can never be fully gleaned anyways due to China's lack of transparency. But it's not an accident why so many governments and companies want to do business in China. They have the people to buy our goods, and they have the people to make our cheap goods. All I'm saying is, China is way too important for western corporations, and we all contribute in some way in fueling China's economic engine, the same way they fuel ours. We're all inter-connected somehow. And a war has massive consequences on both sides, if not the whole world. No one wants to risk that over Taiwan. That's just my guess.