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To me it seems like it’s the same anti-globalization thing that’s going on everywhere. Suddenly no one wants to have any dependency on anyone. Everyone sees possible levers which others could use against you if you import from them. Everybody wants to be self sufficient now.

Really a strong mind shift across society and I don’t like it.

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I think all of the supply chain shortages from events of the last 3 years has caused a bit of a push-back on long supply chains and to some extent globalism.

Given their auto and tech industries (they do have fabs after all), having a local source of metals for semis and battery production makes a lot of sense.

Not an expert in this area but the supply chain issues seem as simple as, let's have China (a dangerous dictatorship) do basically everything, including making all our medical equipment seemed stupid.

Of course it's completely impractical.

What's starting to concern me, I know this sounds ageist, but a lot of countries have aging politicians and voting populace who (scarily) might think this is possible. It started with Brexit IMO.

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