South China Sea conflict could be IT’s Black Swan

The vast majority of the world’s electronics -- its servers, PCs, mobile phones -- are now manufactured in China.This means any inadvertent escalation over the on-going South China Sea territorial dispute could do more than raise geopolitical tensions.
It could easily disrupt electronics manufacturing for the world.
About 84% of the world’s electronics are made in Asia, and about 85% of those goods are made in China, said Michael Palma, an analyst at IDC. “All that product flo