https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/rescue-crews-rush-to-north-carolina-mountain-towns-cut-off-by-helene-floodwaters
Quick google search shows that China has its own Quartz mines, so I'm not sure if those are unsuitable for certain semiconductors or if the use of "world" here just means 
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I have empathy for the human lives lost to flooding, but as for the disruption of the Yankkkee reich's quartz mines for the "world's" semiconductor industry specifically, I can only see that as a good thing.