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Here’s Why U.S. Manufacturers Can’t Quit China..Trade wars notwithstanding, the US simply can’t quit China. But, that’s not for lack of effort.
forbes ^ | Dec 16, 2024, | Shimite Obialo

Posted on 04/09/2025 1:01:33 PM PDT by daniel1212

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1 posted on 04/09/2025 1:01:33 PM PDT by daniel1212
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To: daniel1212

Now if China Mitch were to repeat this I might believe this BS, but right now it is just Forbes.


2 posted on 04/09/2025 1:04:37 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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“Here’s Why U.S. Manufacturers Can’t Quit China..”

Thats because they aren’t manufacturers, they are importers.


3 posted on 04/09/2025 1:05:56 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: daniel1212
Somehow the USA managed to win WWII without anyones help manufacturing anything we needed. How the hell did that happen?
4 posted on 04/09/2025 1:06:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: daniel1212

Gosh. Might as well stick a gun in our mouths. They won.


5 posted on 04/09/2025 1:06:36 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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Here’s your author:

“Shimite Obialo graduated from Columbia Law School in 2013 and works as an associate in the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler LLP in New York.
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When not pursuing legal endeavors, Shimite is dedicated to issues of diversity, community development and empowerment, cultural heritage and arts advocacy and currently serves as founder and CEO of ANOKO, a private members club for diverse creatives and professionals.”
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https://www.pli.edu/faculty/shimite-obialo-i1499820
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Having read all that I suspect a slight bias. 😏


6 posted on 04/09/2025 1:06:39 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: daniel1212

Forbes sucks


7 posted on 04/09/2025 1:07:00 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Dogbert41

See my post #6


8 posted on 04/09/2025 1:07:37 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: daniel1212

Any biz that can’t set up and produce what they need in the US to avoid 100%+ tariffs probably shouldn’t be in business and will be replaced by other providers. (There is zero need for us to recreate the horror of Shenzhen here!)


9 posted on 04/09/2025 1:08:00 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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i am not saying that US manufacturers have to quit manufacturing in Communist China

I am only saying how nice it will be when they start manufacturing in USA again, too!

we can weigh the resulting balance later

ps: until the do start/restart manufacturing in USA, the article’s title is grossly misleading (they aren’t US Manufacturers if they don’t manufacture in the US!)


10 posted on 04/09/2025 1:08:39 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Here she is: https://www.forbes.com/sites/shimiteobialo/


11 posted on 04/09/2025 1:09:06 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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We shouldn’t be trading one thing piece of bamboo with those Covid-designing f@&&s. Me so sowwy.


12 posted on 04/09/2025 1:09:51 PM PDT by Strict9
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To: 9YearLurker

A woke idiot telling us we can’t.......EFF her


13 posted on 04/09/2025 1:11:54 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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The trade deficit with China peaked in 2018, and has since declined 25%

As far as cheap crap goes, Vietnam or Bangladesh are cheaper. As far has high tech goes, American businesses are already very wary of giving China more control.

Trump is now giving the impetus to less trade a further push


14 posted on 04/09/2025 1:11:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Fledermaus

Ha! Forbes is owned by a Chinese company.

They don’t teach welding in the US? What a load of Shimite.


15 posted on 04/09/2025 1:13:21 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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China played the long game to get us here. Trump is playing the long game to get us out.

Can anyone in this country think past the next quarter?

Trump’s current maneuvers aside, the US government has been openly hostile to American manufacturing and production for 50 years and has encouraged countries like China (especially China) to pull US mfg over there. Hell, the government drove it over there. A lot of traitors in DC have gotten wealth doing this.


16 posted on 04/09/2025 1:14:26 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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Cost and quality are king where consumer preference wins in the open competition of the voluntary cooperation between buyer and seller in the marketplace.

If you as the buying consumer can get a better quality product and/or a lower price for the same, the consumer doesn’t care where it came from - only the stupid politicians care.

The Free Market Economy (FME) is oblivious to politics. The FME cares only about self interest in the voluntary cooperation between buyer and seller in the marketplace which drives supply and demand which in turn drives price and availability.


17 posted on 04/09/2025 1:15:03 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Post WWII there is nothing more humiliating than to be born a middle class US citizen. Everyone in the world hates you, cuts you down, disparages you, taxes you, kills you in wars and treats you unfairly at every turn. Every public policy decision made in the USA and the world was designed to make the US middle class poorer and less powerful. Day in, day out.


18 posted on 04/09/2025 1:18:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: daniel1212

Any excuse in a storm!


19 posted on 04/09/2025 1:21:51 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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“When not pursuing legal endeavors, Shimite is dedicated to issues of diversity, community development and empowerment, cultural heritage and arts advocacy and currently serves as founder and CEO of ANOKO, a private members club for diverse creatives and professionals.”

Could have just said he’s a fag.


20 posted on 04/09/2025 1:29:21 PM PDT by chuckb87
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