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What would happen if the west tried to decouple entirely from China?

So, the US, EU, and allies say that over the next 5 or 10 years, we will be entirely self-sufficient and stop all trade with China, and that we would refuse to trade with anyone that trades with them. What would happen?
gpt
It probably would create a lot of economic shocks in the short term especially as so much of the world economy is integrated... But in the long run it probably would be like Brexit, people on all sides would begin adapting to the new world order....

You could also expect certain economic alliances to form and or change.. and maybe not what your expecting... China would most certainly reach out to South America , Africa and India to strengthen its economic trading partners..

The reality is there's too much money  be made by both China and the West to have any decoupling... All the talk about unfair trade practices and humanitarian concerns is more political theater , global mega corporatations benefit greatly from the current world order so each zones economies have much more benefits from the current system than its disadvantages.