Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones
by londons_explore on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:10AM
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> hard to find a supply chain for manufactured products that doesn't have a significant dependency on China. That makes it hard to fight a war with China, trade or otherwise.
You don't ban those products, you put big tariffs on them. That way, anyone who has the option to source stuff elsewhere does so.
And you deliberately act erratically with tariffs - adding and removing them at short notice - so that lots of companies think it is just too risky to trade with China, and move manufacturing elsewhere as insurance.
This playbook has been done before...
Re:Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones
by etempleton on Thursday May 18, 2023 @08:07PM
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And it is already happening. You see Apple, TSMC, and others moving rapidly to setup new manufacturing in India, Europe, North America and elsewhere.
The thing is most of the world is also pretty reliant on international trade business with mainland China.
The question is really about how willing the world is to disrupt their own economies in order to disrupt China's.
Trade barriers against North Korea and Cuba are basically free for the other country, restricting access to energy imports from Iran or Russia imposes a real cost on the country raising the barriers, but even after decades of grumbling it's hard to find a supply chain for manufactured products that doesn't have a significant dependency on China. That makes it hard to fight a war with China, trade or otherwise.