Thankfully, we are finally seeing how vulnerable we have left ourselves.

Just like the best time to plant a tree. The best time to address strategic resource vulnerabilities is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

We've been too complacent for too long, but now this issue has now been pushed into the public conversation.

I think this has little to do with China. People have arrogantly overestimated their own situation, thinking it is a God-given right to have absolute dominance and no peer competitors.

Having competition is normal. Healthy, even. Having to work hard for the fruits of one's labor is normal. Sitting back printing dollars and pointing guns at various places when things don't go one's way is not normal.

I believe we're all actually very deep into realizing the problem, across North America-Europe-Asia. The context now is what to do about China's economic protectionism and their refusal after two decades of false pledges to actually do what they said they would to gain admittance into the WTO.

France for example is trying to get everyone to focus on banding up against China's dumping practices (the US should be working with the EU on this, Trump is half going about the trade war wrong of course). Germany & others are looking at rejecting the aggressive technology transfers / acquisitions that China is making or trying to make.

India is into overdrive about China's military plans across the Indian Ocean and greater region.

China's neighbors have been sweating for years about what's coming next out of them militarily, beyond their territory acquisitions in the South China Sea.

The US has entirely frozen China's ability to buy US companies and is reciprocating on behavior by increasingly locking out several of China's big companies.