Amazing Santorum Lie.

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"America First"

Well, I'm not opposed to that. Every country will inevitably think of it's own interests before looking after the interests of others, if at all.

he's willing to make up blatant lies about other countries to fit his personal agenda

Well, that's it. It's his own personal agenda, it's not said to actually further American interests. But the fact that he is willing to use another country to do so makes me think that he can do that for more than a single time, and for no real good reason at all.

They're not going to declare war on us for something our president says, and I don't think we import much from them.

He isn't your president yet, though. If he does become your president, I'm sure that things won't really change much. The most that can happen is for the Dutch government to sue him for slander.

But if Santorum gets elected and starts insulting China, or the OPEC nations, or Great Britain, or Israel. . .

Well, they certainly could, but I'm sure he won't really go that far...
But maybe he will. He didn't strike me as a particularly bright person.

because it's conceivable that they're eventually going to be considerably more powerful than the U.S

Heavens forbid. But I think that thinking of a China that has a power beyond the one that it has right now is not really realistic. They are dependent on other countries to fuel their economy. For that, they use their own people as cheap, wage slaves.
You cannot go too far with that.

. War wouldn't happen from simple words, but a trade embargo or higher interest rates?

That would spell doom for China aswell. For that to happen, foreign investors would have to withdraw their investment from china, which would mean a large number of unemployed Chinamen. This would be rather interesting, actually, in this weakened state, we would be able to snatch Eastern Turkestan from their hands!