NOW, Do You Notice Me?

Only a teenager who knows that the cash tap will never be turned off can really misbehave at Mummy and Daddy's expense. And America can only arm Taiwan with the only money that America still has, China's, because she knows that China will never call in the debt, having spent five thousand years deliberately indebting other countries beyond anything that they could possibly pay off. But what if, just this once, Mummy and Daddy stopped paying? And what if, just this once, China called in the debt?