Richard Weitz
The Strait of Hormuz crisis illustrates how America’s adversaries can abruptly manipulate supply chain dependencies as geopolitical weapons. Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has boosted oil prices to heights not seen in years. Meanwhile, China has already primed future US chokepoints.
China’s leaders have become experts at supply chain warfare. They follow the master Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu, who observed that the supreme art of war “consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” According to the congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, “Beijing has shifted toward an explicit policy goal of establishing uncontestable dominance across global value chains, eliminating its own vulnerabilities while creating global dependencies on Chinese products.”
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