The author makes.many excellent points but one very big mistake: the assumption of evil intentions on the part of China (and Nazi Germany for that matter). They

The author makes.many excellent points but one very big mistake: the assumption of evil intentions on the part of China (and Nazi Germany for that matter). They are not so much concerned with pushing the US into a dependency, but rather mich more with 1) building up key economic sectors and 2) assuring their own independence of US suppliers. That US capacity shrinks at the same time might be a side effect but is not the first priority any other country aims for. Its actually the US which has long and intentionally cultivated dependence of other countries in defense and these others do resent this situation the same way the author sees.it from the US perspective. Just look at the embarrassing Eurohawk project, which takes outdated US drone technology and adds a mild update, but to produce it the consortium first has to buy full drones from US suppliers. Totally ridiculous and immense >bn€ waste of funds, but initiated in a mutual understanding that there is a defense partnership and interreliance between the US and EU partner countries.