Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb...
by ericmay on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:19AM
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> What would Apple do if China will give them a Huawei treatment?
Well, all those people would instantly be out of a job for one. What Huawei factories in the US are being shut down? It's one thing to lose market access, it's another to lose jobs.
> Pretty much every globally prominent company dealing with light industries, manufacturing, electronics has some things in their products which they cannot reasonably expect to get elsewhere but in/from China.
Cheap is a better word here. There is not a single item in China that can't be replicated elsewhere in the world for consumer products.
> A lot of living essentials are made almost solely in China.
Because of cheapness, not because they can't be created elsewhere. Many countries can create these goods, including the U.S.
> Unless Americans are ready for that, they can't fight China, and the people in Beijing know it very well.
Americans might not be "ready" but they can definitely decouple with China if push comes to shove.
Well, all those people would instantly be out of a job for one. What Huawei factories in the US are being shut down? It's one thing to lose market access, it's another to lose jobs.
> Pretty much every globally prominent company dealing with light industries, manufacturing, electronics has some things in their products which they cannot reasonably expect to get elsewhere but in/from China.
Cheap is a better word here. There is not a single item in China that can't be replicated elsewhere in the world for consumer products.
> A lot of living essentials are made almost solely in China.
Because of cheapness, not because they can't be created elsewhere. Many countries can create these goods, including the U.S.
> Unless Americans are ready for that, they can't fight China, and the people in Beijing know it very well.
Americans might not be "ready" but they can definitely decouple with China if push comes to shove.