Re:BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla f...
by chrisco255 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:13PM
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It's okay to prefer American made products without bringing some kinda racial implication into it. The whole "buy local" movement is simply an extension of this. It's okay to prefer to trade with your local economy.
While we've never been at war with China, it's not infeasible given their attitude towards Taiwan. And there's very real trade-offs with convenience of importing everything vs. the resiliency of having your own supply chains which we saw a small taste of in the early days of 2020 with medical supplies.
We already buy many China-made things including iPhones and we don't bat an eye at the "Designed in CA, made in China" label... but there's a lot of us that feel uncomfortable with yielding our manufacturing base to globalism, not least of which is that it puts you in a bind if you need to stand up to said country when they encroach on more ideologically-aligned democracies.
While we've never been at war with China, it's not infeasible given their attitude towards Taiwan. And there's very real trade-offs with convenience of importing everything vs. the resiliency of having your own supply chains which we saw a small taste of in the early days of 2020 with medical supplies.
We already buy many China-made things including iPhones and we don't bat an eye at the "Designed in CA, made in China" label... but there's a lot of us that feel uncomfortable with yielding our manufacturing base to globalism, not least of which is that it puts you in a bind if you need to stand up to said country when they encroach on more ideologically-aligned democracies.