[rodguy911]

the problem is china needs the US for trade. already i know first hand that shipping rates for containers have gone from 25-30k in Jan. to current $8,300 and dropping fast. orders for goods from the US are down in china so they are dropping shipping rates as fast as possible.
They know if they withhold necessary chips from the US it could easily spell fewer orders for them so they have to watch what they do all the time.

[kabar]

Right now, we are both so intertwined that it would be difficult to decouple. We depend upon China for so many essentials, it would take years to reconstitute a new supply chain.