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Originally posted by reloader-1:
Mars, even if China only has 500 million people, they have an utter chokehold on the world in production. So many supply chains just don’t exist without China… they’ve done that intentionally.

Even the most ardent US first patriots have discussed China and the impact, we will have a fight for the very existence of the US at some point… and I pray that we come out the victor.

We shut China down with just cutting off the oil they aren't getting from Iran, or Russia. Ukraine just stopped all exports.

There's a reason we took Venezuela and took Iran down.

We control the oil now. Even though all trade goes through GB, we control the shipments now.

China is a paper tiger.

Yeah, you neglected to mention they have 1.6 billion barrels of oil stockpiled, and can get crude directly from Russia.

They use 8m a day over what they produce or get via pipeline, and they would be able to ramp down a lot of that consumption on a war footing.

They control:

Rare earth elements and permanent magnets
Semiconductors, electronics manufacturing, and printed circuit boards
Battery materials and lithium-ion batteries
Critical mineral processing (graphite, tungsten, antimony, magnesium)
Active pharmaceutical ingredients
Industrial manufacturing and machine tools

While being the largest shipping, vehicle, drone, and weapons manufacturer on the planet. Containerized weapons delivery systems would turn a day 1 attack into a global nightmare.

Russia can't even satisfy its own needs for crude, much less spare any to China.
China's economy depends on export. China has extreme internal political problems.

As for their semiconductors and rare earth products, we have our own along with the now new discoveries in Europe ind Australia.

One spot in the US controls 100% of the semiconductor grade silicon. Without it, they got nothing. Look up the Spruce Pine Quartz Mines. Any positive news out of China is propaganda.