Subject: Re: The seized Iranian ship...
As for Trump the Conqueror trying to pick a fight with China, he's been doing that since his first term. Remember, in about August of 2019, he was telling companies to get their supply chains out of China? Do you really think any of the USian "L&Ses" give a hoot about a Muslim minority in China, when they paint every other Muslim in the world as the Islamic boogyman? Of course not. It's a nice sounding cover story. They realize China is funding it's challenge to USian hegemony with the money we give them for their manufactured goods.

It's not about starting a war with China. It's about preventing one.

Hard liners in China want to blast Taiwan at the soonest opportunity. But if those hard liners are aware that the minute they do, China's oil spigot gets turned off - and it will - then they might think twice about depriving the world of most of its computer chips (because the second they start shooting at Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are also at risk.

As for moving supply chains out of China, it's the right thing to do. Plenty of places to set up shop that don't have people ripping off your intellectual property to the extent that it happens in China.