A report for the Pentagon was released by Arlington, Virginia-based Govini, which in 2019 received a five-year, $400 million contract from the Pentagon to provide data, analysis and information on Department of Defense spending, supply chain and acquisitions.

The report also states that dependence on the Chinese supply chain is present on every major weapons platform, including US aircraft carriers.

It is separately noted that the current dependence on China cannot be resolved even in a decade. Because a “supply chain” at this scale is an entire economy, as it is a network of many firms that buy and sell from each other.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2024/01/09/americas-carriers-rely-on-chinese-chips-our-depleted-munitions-too/

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    And yet somehow people still think that the US could wage a protracted war against China…

    NATO can’t even keep up with Russia which is minuscule compared to China in industrial terms.

  • d-RLY?@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    And somehow it is Huawei’s 5G or other shit that is somehow going to “take down our infrastructure” or whatever. Though I guess it is a compliment in a way. Means that China has reached a point that is “too close” to being equal to whatever the US has (which is still being made in the Taiwan province).

  • USSR Enjoyer@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yep, everything china is a “SeCURiTY tHReAT”, but umm… lets just ignore google, microsoft, apple, ibm, yahoo, wikipedia, oracle, cia, nsa, fbi, mi6, mossad, nato, aol, yahoo, facebook, twitter, hb gary, bitlocker, prism, operation rubicon, clipper chip, windows, android, macos, ios, intel management engine, stuxnet, systemd, muscular, cointelpro, xkeyscore, 5-14 eyes, project six, tempora, stateroom, openai, lustre, skype, hotmail, gmail, youtube, cablehaunt, carnivore, sms/mms, firebase, cloudflare, cisco, juniper, [10 hours later…], all western mobile carriers, all western internet service providers, all closed-source software, all consumer routers and firewalls, all closed-source firmware… Those are totally cool.

    But did you know chinese-made cranes are a threat to Amerikkkan security? If you put 3 chinese cranes near each other, emperor Xi will command them to build a 100 meter-tall Mao Zedong robot that will steal all the flags, thus eliminating all freedom everywhere forever.