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They also import a ton of food, ore, oil, and LNG, so who knows how that dependence plays out.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00784-6

I don’t know if it’s true that it would hurt more the west. It would hurt both.

I think the pain in the West would be relatively short-term while they are rebuilding manufacturing capacity. Globalization has hurt a lot of workers in the West so it may actually positive for them. China on the other hand would have nobody to sell their stuff to.