U.S. companies are accelerating efforts to reduce their dependence upon Chinese suppliers, even as officials in Washington and Beijing labor to put a floor under their sour relationship.Which, you know, isn't a bad thing. It's one thing to rely on overseas suppliers for cheap shower shoes and teddy bears, but being reliant on foreign suppliers, especially ones in an increasingly hostile power, for semiconductors and baby formula isn't such a great idea.
Meanwhile, in the Aleutian Islands...
That's a notch up from previous incidents, the most recent of which was last year. This incident involves a larger Sino-Russian flotilla and a more robust response from the USN:
The United States deployed four navy warships after Russian and Chinese naval forces conducted joint patrols near the Alaskan coast, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).So, just to make sure all of us Americans are on our toes, the government's gonna startle our pants off using our cell phones one fine October morning later this year.
At least 11 Russian and Chinese ships went close to the Aleutian Islands in the northern US state of Alaska, the WSJ report said, adding that the ships never entered US territorial waters and left. They were shadowed by four US destroyers and P-8 Poseidon aircraft.
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