Steel production capability is considered strategically important in case we go to war, and it has been so since World War II. Steps have been taken to retain d

Steel production capability is considered strategically important in case we go to war, and it has been so since World War II. Steps have been taken to retain domestic production capacity for this reason. Until we have a planet of one people and one nation, we’re stuck thinking this way about things that are critically important, should we find ourselves at war with a former partner. Tech sovereignty has become such a thing. And the bad news is that we have lost. I’ll leave others to debate why, but we can’t manufacture our own chips, we cant make our own telco networks, and the cloud systems that provide back end services are almost lost. The state of play here is dire for the US and it’s strategic partners. I’d say that surveillance is less worrying than the simple fact that a potential future adversary has an off switch for these things that they can toggle at will: no more chips, no more telco products and no more cloud services - now, let’s have that South China Sea conversation one more time...