[neutrino]

You mention steel. Recall how Japan was using every bit of scrap iron it could get from the US - just before it decided to expand?

Will China initiate a new Pearl Harbor style attack? And - will we be able to win this one?

[XBob]

113 - "Will China initiate a new Pearl Harbor style attack? And - will we be able to win this one?"

LOL - Well, let's see - we need to have China ship us the boots for our military (they are made in China), all our PC's (as all our 'American' PC's are made of parts made in china), and we will all starve, as all our can openers are made in China, and most all of our cooking pots are now made in China.

So, offhand - I would say no, not unless we use all the Chinese owned factories we have left, here in this country, and beg them not to forclose.

[XBob]

113 - "Will China initiate a new Pearl Harbor style attack? And - will we be able to win this one?"

Oh, I forgot, Boeing is no longer going to manufacture aircraft here in the US, only in China, and assemble some parts here, so I guess we will have to beg the Chinese to send us planes to bomb them with.