Quora Answer: Will Southeast Asia & South Asia Benefit or Suffer Should the US Escalate Conflict with China over Taiwan?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “Will Southeast Asia and South Asia benefit or suffer should the US escalate conflict with China over Taiwan?” 

Any American attack on China will crash the global economy, and no one will benefit.  Why do we have idiots wanting war between the two biggest economies in the world?  China is the global factory and the United States is the global bank.  Any war between these two is a very bad idea for the rest of us.