[factoryrat]

I keep saying it, and all of the globalist free trader china lobby types here on FR lambaste me for it, but I'll tell you again: the chinese OWN the US manufacturing base. If the THOUSANDS of shipping containers coming from china were to stop tomorrow, the ENTIRE US onshore manufacturing base would grind to a halt.

People have no clue just how much of everything you buy, use, and consume comes out of china, and the US isn't the only country involved in this mess.

If the chinese industrial base goes down, a large part of the first world (including the US) will be totally screwed.

[BobL]

Totally true...even if our machine controllers are made in Germany, or maybe even in the US, guess where the Germans get their piece-parts.

Even our military manufacturing base would drop off the map overnight...and that is simply SCARY.