> Meanwhile, China exports a lot of things that people don’t need. You can turn those off quicker. It's not like that's all they export. They export a lot of

> Meanwhile, China exports a lot of things that people don’t need. You can turn those off quicker. It's not like that's all they export. They export a lot of essential things, and cutting them off would probably far more economically disruptive to their customers than to them. They're store shelves won't be empty, and given their political system they can probably deal with the fallout much more effectively. There are also a lot of alternative producers of oil, while there's no other advanced manufacturing giant on the scale of China that people can shift their orders to. It would make the COVID supply chain difficulties look like a joke.