The U.S. military is increasingly dependent on Chinese suppliers for critical components, giving Beijing unprecedented leverage and the ability to manipulate or shut down exports on which the American military depends.
  • comrade-bear@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    People here will confirm, I suspected that for a long time. And that's probably the most powerful deterrence China have, if you start long war you are cut off from those resources rendering you powerless to win, if you try to win doing massive inter continental damage, well you likely destroyed your own supply chain as well, so China kinda became unreplacable to the world.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      23 hours ago

      I think this was exactly the strategy on the part of China, and another layer of deterrence here is that large US companies are economically dependent on doing production in China now. Moving out is very difficult because all these companies are in competition with each other forcing them to prioritize short term profits. Any company that starts investing in moving infrastructure out of China ends up being at a disadvantage relative to its competitors.

      • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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        15 hours ago

        I think this also speaks volumes about eastern/Chinese philosophy, especially in terms of conflict. Winning the war, before it even starts. War is usually a tragic, absolute last resort, rather than first or second option, as in the West.

      • comrade-bear@lemmygrad.ml
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        15 hours ago

        Yeah, India Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia are some of the back up plans, but the level of technology of China's industrial sector, is decades ahead of any country US included, so they are kinda out of luck trying to replace it in the short term, capitalism own near sightedness is being the key for it's downfall

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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          15 hours ago

          Exactly, and it's also worth noting that US continues to lose influence globally as well. Both India and Indonesia are now in BRICS. It looks like Thailand will flip towards China as well. I really don't see what US can do at this point within the constraints of the system they built.