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From the article:

Specifically, the Kearney report’s authors wrote that they expect companies will be increasingly inclined to spread their risks, as opposed to relying solely on China as this pandemic has exposed them.

China is the go-to source for ibuprofen, hazmat suits, rubber gloves, surgical masks, ventilators. Probably toilet paper, for all we know. How this is not a national security issue is something being raised by senators including Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Tom Cotton (R-AK).

The threat going forward of political anger toward China, not to mention future pandemics stemming from China (the first SARS came from there in 2002-03), means that companies will want to hedge their supply chain strategy by spreading their risks.

Bunches of US companies are rethinking their supply chain(s) with an eye towards dropping China. That's the least they could do, even if it hurts their bottom line a little bit.

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China HOARDS items, in times like right now.

HOARDS them.

China is the LAST country in the entire globe, we want to be dependent on.