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EDITORS' PICK | 22,521 views | Aug 24, 2020, 08:00am EDT To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy: Expert David Axe Contributor Aerospace & Defense Fast-attack submarine USS 'Seawolf' enters Apra U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS EDWARD N. VASQUEZ More From Forbes Cutting off China from its trading partners and sources of oil, natural gas and other resources could be the best, and least costly, way for the United States to defeat China in a major war. To that end, the U.S. Navy should prepare to blockade China, according to Bradford Dismukes , a retired Navy captain and political scientist. “Globalization has made China, a great continental power, dependent on the use of the sea and thus vulnerable to coercion from the sea,” Dismukes wrote . Blockade is an ancient strategy. Surround your enemies. Starve and impoverish them. Blockade- enforcement by way of naval forces is only slightly less ancient. But it’s also unsexy as far as naval d...