Posted on 04/17/2020 8:27:26 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
The United States and Japan are calling on their nation’s companies to leave China and return home, in the process proposing that China pays for the moving costs. This appears to suggest that the era of "Made in China" is officially over and a major reshuffle of the global supply chain is in the works.
A shorter and more localized supply chain is expected in the new era of globalization – without China as the world's factory. This break with the past has not come from nowhere and was not simply triggered by the Wuhan virus outbreak.
Actually, the U.S.-China trade war that started two years ago paved the way for change, though it has to some extent been complicated by resistance from politicians across the world favoring closer ties with China, plus China's growing influence at the United Nations, with its carrot and stick approach.
People with their eyes open have come to realize that the "Belt and Road Initiative" is exporting goods and ideas that facilitate authoritarian rule in authoritarian states. "Made in China 2025" is just another way of spreading Chinese fascism, this time digital, to all corners of the world. No wonder it resembles the "politburo" in George Orwell's novel "1984."
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Even in Asia there are other alternatives- Vietnam, Phillipines, India, Indonesia..to name a few. Just GTHO of China.
Unfortunately, this well-deserved bashing of Red China won’t last long. The ChiComs will wait a bit (they’re good at that), then they’ll start spreading lobbyist money around again.
Plus if they’re smart (and they are) they’ll figure out a way to undercut everyone else on production. Then the short-sighted company owners will start drifting back.
This is yet another reason why the nation needs Trump for four more years. He’s one of the few politicians who will stand up to the ChiComs.
Biden? The ChiComs could buy him off by giving everyone in his family one million yuan ($141,000).
China bought Smithfield and then infected its United Nations workforce. This is bad bad bad.
“This is yet another reason why the nation needs Trump for four more years.”
Amen
Mexico is the new China. We don’t have the infrastructure or people to bring it all back to the US. Why work when Uncle Sugar will pay you to play video games all day.
Problem is for example top line running shoes made in Japan are actually only DESIGNED there. Manufacturing 100% in China.
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