The ways to cope with this shock boil down to two points: either expand overseas markets or enhance domestic consumption capabilities.
However, expanding overseas markets is evidently unfeasible at this stage. With the end of World War I, the global order has returned to stability, and East Africa has lost the excellent external environment for expanding overseas markets; instead, it faces a new round of challenges from European and American countries.
Of course, European countries will require at least several more years to restore economic production. For now, East Africa's main competitor remains the United States.
Yet, solely the United States is enough to cause East Africa headaches, as the industrial capacity of the United States is not much inferior to East Africa's.
Previously, due to the European war, the United States had already pushed its domestic industrial production capacity to the limit, making its economic threat to East Africa quite substantial.
