Agreed, lots of other sources, now or potentially for the products we now buy from China. But that misses the immediate question, do we stop now, continue buying until a US service member is injured or killed, or do we continue even then? I consider our claim to defend Taiwan is false when we’ve already chosen China for their cheap products. It is all talk and maybe we’ll squeal when they invade, but if we are addicted to China’s products, will we do more?
Anyone who hates supporting Russia should be all in favor of drill baby drill. Anybody who hates supporting China should hate the mandates/stimulus to drive EV's while also hating the limits to mining our own rare-earths. The main reason they're "rare" is because we don't mine and process what we have here, we buy some of it from China. We should let the free market determine both what people want to drive (the demand side of rare-earths) and the mining/processing of rare earths here in the U.S. (the supply side, such as lithium in Nevada, California, Arkansas, North Carolina and other places; cobalt in Minnesota). As long as the Dims mandate EV's combined with limiting supply of rare-earths, we're in effect financially supporting China's rare-earth industry.