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Most microchips are not made in China. I'm retired from the semiconductor industry. TSMC is Taiwan. There are fabs all over the world (including several in the USA), but very few in China (and I would be surprised if any western country used Chinese microchips). Intel, Microchip, AMD...they have fabs in various places, but not China.

And those are the difficult bits of technology, requiring cleanrooms and various tools (lithography, furnaces, etc). We could move the PC boards, screens, cases (cellphones, computers, etc) relatively cheaply. China makes some of those components, but they are mostly assembly of the finished product.

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