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Re:2022 Letter by jjeaff on Saturday March 04, 2023 @03:05PM (#35023989)
What accounts for a 40% collapse? That's an enormous shortfall for such a large economy.
Re:2022 Letter by marianatom on Saturday March 04, 2023 @03:15PM (#35024082)
- factories in Southeast Asia that were started shortly after the Trump sanctions in 2017 or covid 2020, that have finally come online

- CHIP act in mid 2022 from Biden that spurred Apple to finally drag its immoral lazy feet

- Russia invasion of Ukraine, and Chinese proclamation of friendship with no limits shortly after

- covid lockdowns in China in early 2022 that shut down factories

- increasing electric rationing every year in China that shut down factories

- Foxconn factory riots

- very loud geopolitical risks that C level execs can no longer pretend not to hear

- can't move money out of China. 'I can't get my money out': Billionaire investor Mark Mobius says China is restricting flows of capital out of the country. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mark-mobius-...

Re:2022 Letter by vehementi on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:13PM (#35024998)
> - can't move money out of China. 'I can't get my money out': Billionaire investor Mark Mobius says China is restricting flows of capital out of the country. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mark-mobius-...

This has been true for 10+ years

Re:2022 Letter by bobthepanda on Saturday March 04, 2023 @06:34PM (#35025585)
Which is always hilarious to me that people complain about USD as a global reserve currency and then propose CNY take over.

Whatever the US is doing with sanctions is still much looser than China's controls on capital, and they've made it an explicit point that they would rather keep capital controls and the ability to suddenly put in even more draconian ones, than to become a global reserve currency.