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Covid-19 is teaching businesses hard lessons about China-only supply chains
The Economist ^ | 02/8/2020

Posted on 02/28/2020 10:02:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/28/2020 10:02:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Not as if it was not suggested...


2 posted on 02/28/2020 10:03:55 AM PST by madison10
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To: SeekAndFind

Hard lesson?


3 posted on 02/28/2020 10:04:01 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: SeekAndFind

If Jobs were still alive he would be building a new factory in Mexico by now................


4 posted on 02/28/2020 10:05:51 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll believe it when I see it. I’m a big fan of profits, but I’m not a fan of profit above all else. It seems there are enough profit above all else types to keep China’s factories humming.


5 posted on 02/28/2020 10:08:46 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump should turn it into an election issue how Clinton, Bush2, and 0bama put our national security in danger by allowing anti-biotics other medical necessities to be made in China. Put America first and require that all medical equipment and medicins be made in the USA.


6 posted on 02/28/2020 10:10:09 AM PST by euram
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To: SeekAndFind

The lesson should stick for a couple weeks at least!


7 posted on 02/28/2020 10:11:33 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

….which Trump began warning everyone about in 2016.


8 posted on 02/28/2020 10:12:52 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind
Adapt, Improvise, Overcome


9 posted on 02/28/2020 10:12:55 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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Geez.....these guys are JUST NOW realizing this???

They need to read Rosemary Gibson’s China Rx...she’s been sounding the alarm, for a few years.


10 posted on 02/28/2020 10:14:30 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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To: brownsfan

I’m not a fan of profits when American lives and health are at risk.

Congress/globalists don’t seem to give a flip.


11 posted on 02/28/2020 10:15:46 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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To: brownsfan

“I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Same here. When this goes away it will be business back to normal in China.


12 posted on 02/28/2020 10:16:33 AM PST by setter
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To: SeekAndFind; Army Air Corps
Current line of thinking.

"Cheapest is Best! But what if-- CHEAPEST. IS. BEST."

13 posted on 02/28/2020 10:17:32 AM PST by KC_Lion (Me and my homies woulda been stackin' bodies by now- G. Washington.)
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To: Jane Long

“Congress/globalists don’t seem to give a flip.”

Those are the profits above all else types. They are despicable.


14 posted on 02/28/2020 10:18:08 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Jane Long

I guess Ross Perot had a lot of good points to make about such things. As the years go by I become more and more glad I voted for him.


15 posted on 02/28/2020 10:18:21 AM PST by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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To: bigbob

Oh, THAT’s being shared!


16 posted on 02/28/2020 10:18:59 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: euram
Trump should turn it into an election issue how Clinton, Bush2, and 0bama put our national security in danger by allowing anti-biotics other medical necessities to be made in China

How would you have had them stop it? Government takeover of the pharmaceutical industry?

17 posted on 02/28/2020 10:20:43 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: brownsfan
I’m a big fan of profits, but I’m not a fan of profit above all else.

That's me. Pretty much "law of the jungle" economics-wise, but even that needs a great deal of responsibility and ethics to work.

18 posted on 02/28/2020 10:20:52 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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Trump was WAY AHEAD of the curve on moving companies within the supply chain out of China and back to the US...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/01/trump-ordered-us-firms-to-ditch-china-but-many-already-have.html


19 posted on 02/28/2020 10:21:09 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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https://investorplace.com/2017/01/10-companies-bringing-jobs-back-to-america/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/06/28/manufacturers-bringing-most-jobs-back-to-america/36438051/

https://www.industryweek.com/the-economy/article/22025473/reshoring-is-on-the-rise-what-it-means-for-the-trade-debate

https://www.tecma.com/chinese-manufacturing-companies/


20 posted on 02/28/2020 10:24:29 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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