I read somewhere that the fabs are already equipped with bombs that can be made to explode if there is an invasion from China. Considering how clean those places have to be in order to work, this can cause immense damage to those fabs.
Other countries have availability, but only China has the supply chain to extract and process these elements at scale. For any other player to step up production to match current demand it would take years.
[1] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-rare-eart...
> Even more so if they annex/invade Vietnam.
Don’t you think that will start WWIII in itself? Vietnam definitely won’t go down without fight, and they have a pretty good track record.
edit: Apart from that, what would that stupid act do to the economy of the involved parties, and the world in general?
It's all interwoven.
Fuck it all, and great reset, or what?