Posted on 04/09/2025 1:01:33 PM PDT by daniel1212
Understanding why China has a chokehold on the US and many multinational companies has a lot to do with the government’s creation of special economic zones (SEZs)...
For example, the city of Shenzhen was once a small fishing village of 30,000 before it was designated as one of the first SEZ in 1980. Now, Shenzhen,..a top ten global finance center in 2024...home to multinational tech companies like Huawei and Tencent (maker of Wechat)...The Shenzhen experiment illustrates what happens when you bring together dense clusters of suppliers, logistical infrastructure (including highways, railroads, and ports), skilled workers, economic investment and tax incentives.
The other major piece that gives China its competitive edge is the access to critical raw materials (CRMs)... In 2022, the US Geological Survey published a list of 50 mineral commodities critical to the US economy (and national security) and China is the primary source of 26 of the 50...
Ellyson of East West drilled down on the economic realities of the supply chain trickling back to China, ...“we were one of the largest electronics assemblers east of the Mississippi and many of the components have to come from Asia…there is no domestic source,” so.. “we had to move most of those assemblies to Costa Rica and Mexico.”.. . what can and should be manufactured and assembled right here in the USA, at competitive prices.
Ferrell emphasized that there is opportunity in the machining and fabrication industry, explaining that there are actually 200,000 component parts of a locomotive but there is a huge shortage of skilled labor because technical trades like welding, for example, are no longer taught in high schools..
it will require much more capital and investment to build up the US manufacturing ecosystem similar to the SEZ model in China, and it may take decades
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Yours is the smartest response I’ve seen in a long time.
WTG!
So a Leftist wordsmith who has never been near a real manufacturing operation. Wouldn’t know a drill press from a lathe from a plastic injection molding setup.
You left out “DEI hire.”
I know that was implied by your adjectives, but I like to make these things very clear for all.
The US must redefine trade with China.
That last is why MAGA cannot end with Trump. It is why we need a JD Vance, someone not beholden to Wall Street, who understands middle America and will fight for them.
Much of that markup is paid straight to mall operators and the Wall Street entities that own them.
The people who have financialized the US economy have very long tentacles.
You’re talking about gov’t command and control economics which we’ve had for some time. C&C Econ simply doesn’t work.
You’re mixing up the way things are - circumstances that could change in an instant - with the unchangeable truths of the laws of economics with which the Free market complies.
All you’re sayin this is the way it is and it will always be this way.
I’m saying things can change by dismantling the gov’t beast.
You may say that will never happen.
But you’d be saying that in 1776 when a bunch of rag-tag colonists chose to fight it out with the greatest military power in the world...and won.
It takes faith in Divine Providence to acquire and sustain freedom. Otherwise gov’t oppression awaits.
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Sorry,
But the truth is, they are at least partially owned by a Cineses company and who knows where Luminar Technologies loyalties lie.
“Thats because they aren’t manufacturers, they are importers.”
Right on target.
Including home economics. Around here in the NE, the Left is well-entrenched, reflective of the Catholic majority. and thus birth control and LGBTQAI+++ is a priority, as well as all that saluting this entails, but while their are subsidized trade schools, it seems few kids today have initiative and purpose in their life to pursue or last on a manual job. 77% of today's youth are not qualified for the military.
The right to murder defenseless innocent humans for purposes of convenience, who are quarantined in the vehicle of its host due to the latter knowing engaging in an activity which often results in having this passenger, shall not be infringed upon. "Your vehicle, your right."
A well regulated Militia of abortionists being necessary for terminating the security of an infant human child in said quarantined state, if host rejects keeping and bearing said child in her arms, shall not be infringed.
The next time we need a “Rosie the Riveter”, she ain’t gonna be there.
Actually, it will likely take a razing by China and aliies to bring about a Great Awakening, not that it should.
A lot holes and miststakes in you analysis.
Thanks
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