Reply To: Its all China’s fault????

Reducing our reliance on China for essential materials, ranging from the key ingredients for most of our drugs, a large percentage of our personal protective gear (masks, gowns, etc), rare earth materials essential to our technologies etc. is a no brainer and this pandemic will hopefully accelerate those steps. However, it is really not realistic to demand that China “pay” for the pandemic as politically attractive as that might sound to some on the far right and far left. In fact, we may need China to help finance the massive increase in U.S. deficits by purchasing even more bonds from the U.S. Treasury in the next year or two.