Comment by Animats

It's a real issue. The overall world reaction to Trump's policies has been to take steps to do without the US. That's just getting rolling, but it's happening. Canada exports oil to China now.[1] China's trade with Asia is up, and trade with the US is down.[2] Supply chains are slowly changing to cut the US out of the loop. The US is seen as an unreliable trading partner.

It's hitting software. "Dutch Parliament Calls for End to Reliance on US Software".[3]

[1] https://www.ualberta.ca/en/china-institute/research/analysis...

[2] https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/canada-interna...

[3] https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-03-18/d...