The old Marxists used to say, with a little smirking, that the capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him. Given Xi's strong turn to fascism we need to proceed with care. Just as the western world's adoption of smart renewable energy would take Putin down several necessary pegs, our re-shoring a lot of our manufacturing might do the same for Xi. One thing we learned from the pandemic is that long and fragile supply lines are not only destructive of the environment, they are dangerous to the American public.