So… you're making… food, the stuff you need to survive… food… more expensive to buy… for yourselves. To teach Trump a lesson.
Wow.
Trade War Escalation
Camden Bailey
Joseph Peterson
I take it Confuscious never said "Win win."
Mason Rivera
I bet most of it is components and raw materials that American corporations send to China to be finished. Outside of some extremely specialized high-end items they haven't reverse engineered yet and bulk agricultural products, I don't think there is much of anything they can't produce at this point.
Xavier Clark
They'll just go back to eating dogs.
Xavier Morris
Problem for China is quality.
They can churn out huge quantities of relatively simple things and put things together on the cheap.
But manufacturing sophisticated or complex tech is beyond them right now.
For instance Intel has tried repeatedly to move production to China or other Asian slave labour countries, but they've been unable to pull it off as the locals aren't capable of maintaining a proper production environment (meaning a clean one)
Speciality alloys and materials are also way out of their league. They've never been able to develop the capacity due to well established players on the international stage, even as the number of said players has diminished.
Chinks don't make a lot of stuff. They put it together.
Gabriel Adams
this
Elijah Martinez
If the food is going to bite them in the ass, then they need to learn to get their shit together and farm properly. On top of that, they need to learn how to make shit or get it from Japan.
And if you want to take it a step further, they need to change their mindset about blue collar work instead of blindly getting some degree in the US for prestige and not using it but only to show it off as proof that they can run their father's businesses when they go back to China.
James Harris
Agreed. At work, we manufacture a polishing slurry for microchip wafers. We are the only ones in the world that make it and charge a huge amount of money for it. They opened a plant in Singapore to manufacture it but the lack of abundant fresh water source coupled with low quality silicate means we spend a million bucks a month to ship it from the Midwest to China every month. They just don't have the resources we do. Which is why they are so interested in Africa.
James Thompson
Nothing makes me hate a people quite as much as cruelty to dogs.
Caleb Young