Is the semiconductor industry particularly vulnerable to China for some reason? I am obviously in a news bubble but it looks like it's always the silicon technology companies that have these issues.
I suppose the best approach is to avoid doing business with them.
Perhaps the current US Administrations position concerning China warrants wide spread support.
Supposedly, in the cheapest Chinese-produced goods, it sometimes happens that screws are made not entirely from metal, but are just a metal casing around sand.
I do think it's worth considering whether this will result in a better world overall. It's a loss for many Americans, but perhaps a net-gain for humanity as a whole? If China is able to drive the price of high-quality goods down on a global scale, that might be a good thing, right?
I'd like to be optimistic about all of this. I'm hoping that most of us on HN in the USA will ultimately benefit from us, for lack of a better term, losing.
Planned famines could be a part of that domination. I'd argue that they're easier to cause now than ever if you can disrupt supply chains, and that's easy to do if you control transportation routes and infrastructure.