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Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by Aeolun on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:18AM (#29615088)
Even if you lose all business with China, in the long term that is better.

It’s disturbing I cannot buy goods that are not (at least partially) made in China.

Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by gpm on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:16PM (#29616563)
One component of this seems to be that by moving online we've lost access to the labels on goods. In a store, you can usually just look at the "made in <X>" label printed on the box. On amazon, that information is pretty much never available.

Possibly this is partially because they're commingling inventory made in different places, but I think a lot of it's just that amazon doesn't see any reason to force people to list that.

Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by ratww on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:47PM (#29616947)
I once asked a person working on a large music instrument website why products "Made in USA" or "Made in [European Country]" were labeled as such, but the ones made in other countries aren't, and the answer was pretty simple: they A/B tested it, but "Made in China" or even "Made in [Asian Country]" drives people away. Japan and Korea have a good reputation for instruments, though.
Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by iszomer on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:07PM (#29615726)
Best observed while grocery shopping in chinatowns or dense Asian marketplaces. I'd say 95% of canned and packaged products stocked are imports from China.