This is one view. Another view is that maintaining economic interdependence between countries — aside from making both countries richer via specialization and comparative advantage — is a great way to incentivize cooperation and prevent them from killing each other.

Examples here: https://www.hoover.org/research/when-trade-wars-become-shoot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion

Needs to be two-way though. What if we rely on China, but they don't rely on us? Well then they can destroy us at any moment. It needs to be MAD to be a deterrent.