>>9243289We buy too many, that's literally the problem!
We saw first hand that anything close to their influence can be taken at a whim (like supplies during Covid from as close as Australia). When you combine that with their literal throttling of cultural disagreement by jailing/blackmailing industries into taking the Nike line of "we are a Chinese company".
People here are already closer to Europe then they are to America as a consumer of Bionicle: it'd make no sense to go to China as a dealer when that is reflected more as an American phenomenon and should have less to do with European/Non-Asiatic based property. It's like saying that my neighbors should buy the same type of product in a bad neighbor hood and get mugged when they have a safer location and store to go to.