Nah, fires are dangerous and everyone can see them, plus you lose the capital investment and you can't undo it quickly, so you have no leverage. If you want to create a shortage for international leverage, there's a million bureaucratic ways to do it. "Oh these products are unsafe, your factory permit expired, we're investigating corruption, the shipment is uninsured, there's a covid outbreak" on and on, and there's a mandatory ccp officer in every factory so it's easy to do. The government can also just buy the products and dump them in a field somewhere, they did this with electric cars and scooters.
Nah, fires are dangerous and everyone can see them, plus you lose the capital investment and you can't undo it quickly, so you have no leverage. If you want to create a shortage for international leverage, there's a million bureaucratic ways to do it. "Oh these products are unsafe, your factory permit expired, we're investigating corruption, the shipment is uninsured, there's a covid outbreak" on and on, and there's a mandatory ccp officer in every factory so it's easy to do. The government can also just buy the products and dump them in a field somewhere, they did this with electric cars and scooters.