“China may restrict American access to medical supplies”
“The U.S. will definitely not be able to produce them in the short term.”
That would naturally result in a crash effort to build production capacity in the USA, greatly speeding the decoupling process, and leave China taking all the blame for it.
They would both lose their biggest customer, and create huge new competitors.
Bravo!
It really highlights why we can not be dependent on any supply chain from a communist country.
I worked at Kodak, only as a summer kid (while I was in college) but from what I saw of the place, it could easily crash-start production, and ramp up VERY quickly to full replacement.
Don’t forget, these guys were one of the major suppliers of all kinds of manufacturing chemicals in the last 2-3 decades. The lines are already in place.