[Info-vax] [OT] USA

[John Dallman]

In article <u6qp9o$26q1s$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:
> On 6/19/2023 1:43 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > In the old days, your military had to worry about protecting your
> > industrial base from an enemy. These days, all your enemy needs to
> > do is to threaten to stop sending you the goods they now produce
> > for you.
> 
> If the goods are critical yes.
> 
> But China export is mostly consumer stuff.

Last time I bought servers from IBM, they were produced in China. They
were low-to-medium range AIX boxes, about $10,000 each in about 2015. 

There's also lots and lots of basic industrial supplies produced in China:
bolts, cable, switches, and so on. China has acquired vast market power
through selling stuff cheap and driving other producers out of business. 

John