Lol they’ll never admit to a china covid zero policy. They’ll simply seek to extract their pound of flesh one way or another.
Eventually, the losses pile up higher than even the US economy can endure. This is just the plot of Downfall, with Joe Biden and a dozen CEOs in a bunker moving around economic chits on a map, pretending at managing a system that no longer exists in any material sense.
COVID can be avoided, it can be combated, it can be suffered and endured, but it can't be ignored. American execs shoving their workforce into the meat grinder for three years running will have the same effect as The Charge of the Light Brigade or the Battle of Tannenberg or any of the other Human Wave Attack strategies that have been so spectacularly unsuccessful throughout history.
In the end, the corners of the country best able to endure COVID will be the ones where people took care of each other.
The Chinese economy already overtook that of the US. The US' numbers are inflated by speculative finance nonsense.