LOL. In the market for electric air pumps and cell signal boosters (unrelated), and boy-golly-gee eBay has some wild discounts from suppliers. 'OEM' products are marked down by 75% from very highly rated companies boasting very similar marketing for said products. One guess for where 'Country of Origin/Manufacturing' is on these products. A couple items not listed in the article I linked (due to recency) was Iran's recent discovery of lithium, who - and I'm no expert - I would think be more amenable to trade relations to China due to a 'New Silk Road' deal in 2019. That's only from a cursory glance.... it also seems like Taliban might stop ghosting China's $10bn 'U up?' texts about the deposit found in Afghanistan. So Silk Road 2: Electric Boogaloo doesn't look that far-fetched. Sidenote, thanks for the book rec.I was rather taken aback when I figured out how brazen China's take on capitalism was.