“How about we stop Chinese commerce, thus cut funding the Chinese Navy as a starting point?”
Go to Home Depot or Lowe’s and see what China makes that goes into a house.
Most drugs Americans need to stay alive have Chinese-made precursors.
Yes, understood, but we need to start disengaging. Otherwise, once an American service member dies at the hands of the Chinese military were really screwed. Cut off cold turkey, scramble to find new sources, make it again ourselves, while also fighting a war. Plus, the realization that we paid for the Chinese military, do we stop or continue trading with them all way our soldiers die?