"I think we could get our pink umbrella and Hello Kitty backpack industries up to speed pretty quickly if the Chinese supply dries up."
Granted, big ticket items generally dont come from there, but a hell of alot still does and I question our ability to quickly rebound from that.
We may no longer manufacture the kind of garbage we buy from there, but dozens of other nations do. For a few cents more a new source is available. China already has unemployment problems, messing with us economically or militarily would be a disaster for them. I say "Bring em on".