We're utterly dependent on China for basic electronic components. There are no US suppliers who can provide resistors, capacitors, inductors, ICs, connectors, and other critical electronic components in the quantities needed. My company is buying millions of dollars of such components a year, and so is every other big electronics manufacturer.
We need to develop our own capability, but that will never happen when Chinese components are cheaper and work just as well.
That’s why the supply chains are moving elsewhere in Asia.
What are you manufacturing that the Chinese can’t target and make cheaper than you can with their own parts, and cut you out as the middleman? Therein lies the rub. I heard some story I think it was some Italian vendor that was getting tomatoes from China to make their sauce because it was so much cheaper. Once the Chinese figured out their product, they took their own tomatoes and started a competing brand. It’s what they do.
Add in DRUGS!
Y’all know just how much China is in control of the drugs (and raw ingrediants for drugs) Americans use and need? And our military?
So hypothetically if we were to stop all imports via embargo then the USA would return to the electronic stone age? I say 1 year tops and the USA would be back making all electronics domestically.
When did you stop believing in America?