China is not a friend of the United States...make no mistake....they are not our friends.
China plays "the long game". Do some research on how they've been infiltrating our colleges and higher education, and how they've quietly been buying up vast amounts of land...buildings....land near important military assets, land in various area surrounding our continent (like various Bahamian islands)
Yeah, it's difficult to be in IT and sell product that is not somehow having roots in china...parts made there. But we try. We no longer buy from Ingram Micro (I call it ChIngram MIcro)...since they bought it back in what..2016. We try to resell services mostly based in the US. We use PAX8 for our software..they're based in CO. We used to use a firewall company based out of CA...Untangle. We used to purchase the hardware from NextGenAppliances..who had custom made industrial x86 platforms from Canada.
Our primary backup vendor was Datto (before KrapSeya bought them up)..and they were based in our own state...CT
We resell DNS Filter..based out of Washington State
We resell SentinalOne..based out of California
Dropsuite..based out of Singapore (not China)
Yeah...I love Lenovo...I can't get away from that..made in China.
A couple of years ago we had some momentum to bring manufacturing back to the US..but that fizzled away in just the past couple of years.
Looking at "home stuff"...my wife and I do our best to avoid "made in china" products. And...yes...I've been this way for a good...20+ years. Not just a recent thing. Yup..when I buy jeans, sneakers, furniture, appliances, various stuff for around the house...I research as best I can and avoid "made in china". Pay more? Yup. But feel good about supporting my country...yup. The economy starts locally, and goes in outward rings.
Did anyone read the rather quiet news about how the chinese infiltrated the GCC High Microsoft 365 accounts that our top level government uses? (yup, mostly not reported by our news). Proxied via a planted employee at Microsoft. Yup...for many months earlier this year...they had their eye on our top government departments email. We managed to find the hack and track it back to the exact chinese gov't backed hacking groups. But of course...our current gov't did nothing about it.
We have massive pollution going on in the world. Some top countries try to do something about it, minimize pollution. Yet..other countries, like china...turn a blind eye to it, they simply don't care. They'll keep dumping garbage, plastics, into the ocean. They'll happily take all the EV battery manufacturing and strip mine their own country leaving massive environmental waste going on...because they don't care. One of the problems of EVs...just moves the pollution over the horizon out of sight.
And I say this more towards their gov't...not the people, I know plenty of Chinese people, and like any "people"...for the most part...great people.