A huge task indeed but perhaps less than people think.
Chinese imports are heavily overrepresented in certain sectors (Tech for instance) but the US imports far less than most other countries. It's one of the peculiarities of the global economy.
Chinese imports are heavily overrepresented in certain sectors (Tech for instance) but the US imports far less than most other countries. It's one of the peculiarities of the global economy.
I am reminded of this Purism phone that you can buy as a US made or China made version. https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ China: 799$ (now 1200$ due to rising supply chain costs) USA: 2000$
I guess we are lucky in that most of our food and infrastructure related items seems to be local.
Almost no concrete is ever shipped more than 150 miles or so, concrete is almost always extremely locally produced.
Only steel has any appreciable trade volume with China.
How much flash RAM etc do we produce locally etc?
Large-scale amphibious assaults were incredibly precarious in the era before AWACS and spy satellites. Now they're probably impossible against a modern adversary.
Also - as someone else mentioned - China doesn't want to be a pariah state.
Agreed. In particular, they rely on international trade to keep the economic prospects of their young men rosy enough that they won't participate in huge riots that bring down the government, which is the historical fate of most governments of China.
This is quite a bit naive. Do you not think ships are capable of planning their movements around satellites? Do you know how fast a ship can leave a US port and dock up in an Asian port (ships have an unclassified, and a classified speed)? Are there no other methods of camouflage that can be employed to hide from a satellite when it is over you?
You don’t think it’s possible because how it’s done has layers upon layers of classification walls.