• SunriseParabellum [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Little weird actively wishing for the most populated country in the world and the second largest economy in the world to collapse. Hey yankee numb nuts, that’s gonna have global repercussions, that will likely affect the US as bad as anyone else. Who do you think makes all your shit? Really trying to cut off your nose to spite your face here.

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      1 year ago

      I agree with everything you’re saying, but one thing: the US imports more from Canada and Mexico because labor land and shipping costs less than production in China

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          1 year ago

          I guess I fail to see the point. There is no person on Lemmy who only uses items native to their country, especially electronics. Criticize whoever you want, but realize the designs and money for the products are almost always coming from a different place as the manufacturing. If your labor is cheap, you don’t attract the best and brightest because those scientists and engineers expect to be paid well. If you attract the best and brightest, cheap labor can’t afford to live near them

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            1 year ago

            If you look at imports by sector, high tech manufacturing still occurs in China by an overwhelming margin. The input material supply chains are such that if retaliatory sanctions began in the trade war, you would see $10k basic televisions stateside.

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              1 year ago

              Didn’t the trade wars already start under Trump, and then get intensified under Biden with the CHIPS act/restricting microprocessor imports to China? China retaliated by restricting microprocessor raw materials to the US and Chinese companies ordered 5 billion USD in microprocessors

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      1 year ago

      Yep, it is definitely a little weird. I mean you aren’t supposed to speak English. Translate everything to pinyin and you are complant.