Posted on 03/31/2020 2:58:27 PM PDT by BeauBo
While China’s factory activity hit an all-time low in February, numbers released yesterday showed the country’s manufacturing sector started growing again in March...
China may be getting back to work, but the rest of the world is reading this in PJs. As major economies from the U.S. to India go into hibernation to slow the coronavirus pandemic, there’s very little interest in widgets made from Chinese assembly lines.
“The biggest problem facing China’s economy in the second quarter is the slumping foreign demand,” economist Nie Wen told Reuters.
Orders for new Chinese exports, including steel, are being canceled as the world waits out the outbreak. We’ve come full circle: A couple months ago, global supply chains were thrown into chaos when Chinese factories closed because of the coronavirus. Now that they’re back online, few companies are buying parts.
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Supply chains are pulling out of China, strong new re-shoring policies are being considered for manufacturing, and public attitudes are changing.
The cumulative effects of Governments, businesses and consumers; all around the world turning against communist China and their products, could be something that we have not seen yet.
Let's see if outright hostility to the ChiCom Government and their products develops, as we pass through the eye of the storm, of peak death rates from their disease.
Boycott China.
I will never, ever, so help me God, touch anything from China again.
It’s all infected with their stinking WMD.
Any proof of that? I would bet the world's business leaders who primarily look at the bottom line are more than willing to continue with manufacturing jobs within China.
I look forward to the last supply chain leaving China and turning off the lights
Boycott China.
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American whores called politicans have had their pockets liked by big business to make it easier to do business in this filthy human rights and evironment violating China.
BIG MONEY.
Boycott APPLE and other countries that use them.
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I have less hours, but I didn’t get even a whole extra day off yet.
I have some boardgames which I kickstarted that will be here sometime, but I have more puchaces held up by quarantines here in the states than overseas buys.
We have vowed that we will not knowingly buy a Chinese product. Of course, they lie, as they did by making their leather goods in their Chinese-owned factories so they could label them “Made in Italy.”
I’ll bet there’s lots of Native American Reservations that would like to start up manufacturing.
Germany and Japan were stupid for fighting us. So was Saddam. This will continue because you can’t fix stupid.
Germany and Japan were stupid for fighting us. So was Saddam. This will continue because you can’t fix stupid.
There’s a good chance you’re right.
Short-term profits, and then in another five or ten years we go through this brown blizzard again.
Let’s keep reminding folks of what happened when they start forgetting.
A Tea Party like movement would be great.
Many important products should be made Here.
China isn’t back. That’s just what they want their media lackeys here to think, to make the US look bad.
Wuhan is still a ghost town.
I’ve been boycotting Apple my whole life. The only product of theirs that I own is an iPod, and that was a gift.
Because it is a WEAPON
Because it is a WEAPON
Yeppers.
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