Rule of thumb : Never underestimate your enemy , especially when they are very adept at “borrowing” industrial trade secrets & have the able & willing assistance of our own “treasonous political leadership” the combination usually leads to a lot of sorrow & dead bodies on your own side.
Very few understood why. It is not motivated by the raw capitalist greed to sell devices OEMed in China for $90 for $2000 retail stateside. There is something much worse.
Chicoms control 95% of rare earth metals that are needed for the production of high tech devices and they restricted export.
Foreign companies willing to set up shop in China were given unrestricted access to rare earth metals as if they are Chinese.
As a result, Chicom R&D (reverse & duplicate) is not duplicating products, they duplicate manufacturing plants. Without any investment. Hundred of billions of dollars and hundred of millions of man-years were given to them on a platter.
Chips are made in Chicom controlled manufacturing plants.
How many end up in American weapons systems?
It is not problem when U.S. uniforms are made in China, problem is when everything else is made there. I was shocked when I saw the list of STRATEGIC materials that are no longer produced in U.S.
This is not short sightedness, this is treason.
It seems no one learns anything from history. When the world banking system was shifted from London to NYC in 1913 less than 40 years later The British Empire ceased to matter any longer.
The powers that be are propping up Chicoms and Americans fail to notice it.