Yeah, India Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia are some of the back up plans, but the level of technology of China’s industrial sector, is decades ahead of any country US included, so they are kinda out of luck trying to replace it in the short term, capitalism own near sightedness is being the key for it’s downfall
Yeah, it kinda looks like the US is also trying some moves of throwing its weight around in Africa, both economically and militarily, but again with limited success